Focusing on regions of North America, Europe, and Asia where wind power is on the rise, the researchers analyzed wind speed records collected between 1978 and 2017 from more than 1,400 weather stations

Geoscientists can reconstruct the climate of the past by analyzing dripstones—and they can also draw up prognoses for the future

A Niels Bohr Institute study shows that hurricanes have become more destructive since 1900, and the worst of them are more than three times as frequent now than 100 years ago

Mallorcan cave yields 4-million-year-old geologic evidence providing new insights into the magnitude of global sea level rise

Researchers combined storm surge, sea level rise, and the predicted increased occurrence and strength in tropical storms and hurricanes to create a map of flood hazard possibility along the US East Coast and Gulf of Mexico

Raging winds can demolish trees, defoliate entire canopies, and scatter debris across forest floors, radically altering the habitats and reshaping the selective pressures on many organisms

Researchers found that six of the seven highest precipitation events in a 120-year record have occurred within the last 20 years

A predictive model combining information about plant physiology, real-time soil conditions, and weather forecasts can help make more informed decisions about when and how much to irrigate

A new study suggests that intense storms may help push ice sheets over the edge

Major shifts in temperature and rainfall caused the disappearance of communities long before 1492, researchers have found