HENRY FOUNTAIN

The country’s recent disaster could offer clues about the potential strength and location of future West Coast quakes.

Climate change didn’t make the dry spell more likely, researchers found, though extreme heat probably made it hurt more.

A robot lowered through the ice reveals how the Thwaites shelf is melting, which will help forecast its effect on global sea level.

Aftershocks normally follow a large earthquake, but they are rarely as powerful as the 7.5 magnitude tremor that came after the 7.8 shock in Turkey...

was unusually large.

The determination, made under the Clean Water Act, will protect a valuable wild salmon fishery and quashes a proposed mine project in the area.

California has experienced what one researcher described as “weather whiplash” with quick swings between wet and dry periods.

Rogue emissions from China of ozone-depleting chemicals had threatened to delay recovery by a decade. But the emissions were stopped, according to a U.N.-backed report.

The deadly freeze that swept the United States was extraordinary, but while scientists know that global warming can intensify extreme weather, the effects on winter...

These storms aren’t tremendously rare, but this particular one is much more powerful than most.