Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California. States are seeking extensive financial ...

El Niño, the Pacific climate shift that comes around once or twice a decade, is back this year — warming tropical oceans and ...

We treat the effects of climate change as emergencies: this is wrong. Tackling heatwaves, floods and droughts requires ...

Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm was thriving in Baltimore’s Greenspring neighborhood when researchers from Morgan State University proposed establishing a weather station in its fields. Farm ...

In a new working paper, Yale SOM’s Kelly Shue and Samuel Hartzmark of Boston College model how the use of reflective aerosols ...

A new study suggests climate models may be overestimating how much carbon forests will absorb in a warming world, raising the possibility that global temperatures could rise even more than current ...

Urban heat islands pose a growing global health threat. But in tropical cities, the peril is surging. Already burdened by hot-humid equatorial weather, global warming, intense poverty, rapid ...

Human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that sparked Canada’s massive summer wildfires and in turn angered U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a ...

A digital SLR camera is your best bet for dramatic close-up photos of the moon passing in front of the sun. But you can still ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Solar Cycle 26 prediction uses a newly identified sunspot switch-off point to forecast solar activity up to seven years early.

Those little brown marks on the skin confuse many people. Both involve excess pigment in the skin, but they arise from different causes and behave differently. Freckles often bring back memories of ...

Three studies predict that our sun is entering an unusually quiet period that could produce big changes in weather, both in space and on Earth. The studies, announced Tuesday at a conference in Las ...