The results of the weekend storm that buried many Eastern U.S. locations in 2 feet or more of snow stands out starkly in a new satellite image. The image from space reveals how the storm swept through Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia but largely spared New York City. The landscape is...

Significantly less fog is drifting in along the Pacific Coast these days, a new study finds. The shift force a decline in redwood trees, which rely on the fog to keep them supplied with water during the arid summer months. Climate models have predicted that with the warming caused by...

A new solar cell can produce the same amount of energy as the best conventional solar panels while using less expensive material. The novel flexible device could help make solar cells far more practical for products ranging from sunroofs to clothing, scientists say. It could be extremely rugged – you...

{{adsense|premier|right}} Put Your Computer to Sleep March 29, 2010: Learn to love your computer's power management tools, which include automatically turning off the monitor, turning off the hard drives, and putting the entire system into sleep or hibernate mode (preferably after half an hour of inactivity). Microsoft says that hibernate...

Estimated travel time for the tsunami generated by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile. The location of the earthquake is shown as a yellow star. Officials with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the times are estimates, and that waves can continue for an hour or more after the initial wave...

Many gardeners swear you should not water in the midday because water droplets on plants can magnify the sun's rays and burn leaves. But the idea has never been rigorously tested, until now. This is far from a trivial question, said biophysicist Gabor Horvath at Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary....

When an unusually cold stretch of weather grips much of the world, as one did in December, it can leave people wondering what ever happened to global warming. The gradual inching up of temperatures popularly known as climate change is alive and well, according to NASA. The decade 2000 through...

Believe it or not, there is a potential upside to the global financial crisis that began in 2007. However, it now appears that benefit — namely, putting the brakes on greenhouse gas emissions, and, as a result, global warming — never fully materialized, according to an analysis of two important...

The massive tsunami generated by the March 2011 earthquake off the coast of northeastern Japan was a merging tsunami — a type of tsunami long thought to exist, but seen now for the first time, scientists report. The magnitude-9.0 Tohoku-Oki temblor, the fifth-most powerful quake ever recorded, triggered a tsunami...

SAN FRANCISCO — The target set by nations in global warming talks won't prevent the devastating effects of global warming, according to climate scientist James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The history of ancient climate changes, which occurred over millions of years in the planet's history...

Atopobathynella glenayleensis (Image credit: Kym Abrams)A tiny blind subterranean aquatic parabathynellid crustacean(Atopobathynell glenayleensis) from the Yilgarn region of WesternAustralian (approx 3 mm in length). Brevisomabathynella leijsi (Image credit: Kym Abrams)A tiny blind subterranean aquatic parabathynellid crustacean(Brevisomabathynella leijsi) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australian(approx 4 mm in length). Brevisomabathynella uramurdahensis...

Winter Wonderland (Image credit: mikie11 | shutterstock) From Australia to Antarctica, we've rounded up breathtaking images of snow-filled landscapes from around the world. The above winter scene of a rosy sunset's rays over the snow was captured in Finland. Snow-Covered Forest (Image credit: Kotenko Oleksandr | shutterstock) A forest in...

As climate changes, animals' seasonal habits shift: Flowers bloom earlier in spring, birds change the timing of their migrations, hibernating mammals emerge earlier. Now, researchers have found what they say is evidence of a similar shift in humans. They found that peak attendance in U.S. National Parks in which spring...

From NOAA’s Environmental Visualization Laboratory: As a plume of moisture travels across the Pacific towards the Pacific Northwest, the National Weather Service has issued flood outlooks for four counties in Oregon. Up to 10 inches may fall over the next 24 hours in Curry County, which may result in rapid...

From the massive and disastrous temblor that struck Japan to the surprising East Coast quake, 2011 has been quite a year for earthquakes. On the cusp of the new year and with talk of the doomsday supposedly predicted by the ancient Maya, suggestions that a catastrophic natural disaster is in...