RAYMOND ZHONG

A scientific panel has picked Crawford Lake, Ontario, to represent the Anthropocene, a proposed, and hotly contested, new chapter in geologic time.

Scientists knew the planet’s centerline could move. But it took a sharp turn sometime around the start of the 2000s.

In some of the nation’s most populous areas, hazardous storms can dump significantly more water than previously believed, new calculations show.

A rafting trip yields insights about a national treasure that seems permanent but is always being changed, lately by humans.

In a new study, scientists found that the climate milestone could come about a decade sooner than anticipated, even if planet-warming emissions are gradually reduced.

Droughts like the one that has ravaged Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are now 100 times as likely as in the preindustrial era, a new study...

It’s the regions of the world that haven’t yet experienced an off-the-charts heat wave that we should worry about, a new scientific study argues.

When rains fail unexpectedly, higher temperatures can more rapidly parch the ground, to devastating effect.

Torrential rains could have helped to replenish depleted aquifers, but some say state bureaucracy, designed to distribute water fairly, has stood in the way.

The train was carrying industrial materials used in plastics, paint thinners and other products, according to information provided to the federal government.