Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, afflicting lands as far away as Greece and what’s now Pakistan. Probably driven by ...

We have learned an enormous amount about our planet’s climate system by studying Earth’s modern and recent history -- roughly the last two million years, and particularly the last 10,000 to 100,000 ...

This year, Earth Day falls on a Saturday, April 22, providing a perfect opportunity to turn the day into an “environmental Shabbat.” Shabbat is a reminder of creation, as the Bible writes after six ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – We are in the middle of an extinction level event, where 85% of the species on Earth may not survive. In this First Warning Weather University lesson, Chief Meteorologist David Yeomans ...

They came from all over the state, some by foot or bicycle, others pouring out of gas-guzzling buses and cars. They blinked up into a slate gray April sky, “Save Your Earth, You Can’t Get Off” signs ...

The atmosphere’s concentration of carbon dioxide—a potent greenhouse gas—has been increasing in recent years faster than had been forecast by even the most extreme projections of a decade ago. At ...

This Sunday, May 15, more than 2.7 billion of the world’s 7.9 billion people will have an opportunity to watch the same celestial event, if the weather cooperates. The moon will be darkened by the ...