A new study reveals that chemicals used to replace ozone-damaging CFCs are now driving a surge in a persistent “forever ...

Freezing rain can cause ice to accumulate on tree branches and power lines and thus poses a greater risk than snow ...

Fluffy, white snow is falling and the roads are glistening, and you are wishing and hoping that it will be enough to cancel school. You turn on your local weather to get a more detailed forecast, and ...

When humans hurt nature, Earth weeps. Its screeching wails rise towards the sky and rain down teardrops, not of blood or salt, but acid. Dubbed “acid rain,” this rain is a witch’s brew that has ...

From the Southeast rainforest to the Arctic tundra, warming conditions are creating a variety of Alaska landslide hazards, some of them posing extreme hazards to human safety and others creating ...

Water moves between pools through evaporation into water vapor, transport through the atmosphere, condensation to form clouds, and returns to the surface as precipitation. At its core, the water cycle ...

That's not your imagination! That smell has a name, and it's backed by science. The earthy, fresh scent after a rainstorm is called petrichor (pronounced PEH-truh-kor). It comes from a mix of plant ...

Scientists have warned about a new kind of acid rain that is everywhere, is almost impossible to clean up, and could be a threat to every living thing on planet Earth. Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) – a ...

It has been a rainy week in middle Alaska. Blah. But perhaps I judge liquid precipitation a bit harshly. Rain is, after all, the free distribution of a substance more valuable than gold. Since the ...

Two years of planning, 30 vehicles crammed with instruments and up to six aircraft a day will be put to work this summer mapping the evolution of water vapor as it leads to rain clouds and storms.

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...