As crews work to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, researchers and officials are trying to understand how the fires on land have i ...

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, ...

The National Hurricane Center's website and maps now reflect the official name (at least in the U.S.) of the Gulf of America.

Muddled directives and early-morning emails at NOAA, one of the world’s top weather and climate forecasters, have put the ...

President Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to head NOAA. Some former NOAA employees are concerned about Jacobs' scientific integrity after his prior involvement in "Sharpiegate." ...

As tides push ocean water around the globe, its interaction with the planet's magnetic field generates a weak electric current. This current in turn produces a weak electromagnetic signal that can ...

It turns out the rate of that increase matters for non-living systems, too. A recent University of Washington study looked at how a major current in the Atlantic Ocean that includes the Gulf Stream ...

The lawsuit alleges the current House map fails to meet state constitutional requirements that districts be compact and allow elections to be “free and equal.” The outcome is elections that are ...

An updating map created by CBS News' data team charts the expanse of the wildfires across Southern California. The Hughes Fire, which erupted in northwest L.A. County on Wednesday, Jan. 22 ...

The turtles are allowing the scientists to test hypotheses about ocean currents and migration that were previously unknowable. "With each year that we release more turtles, we're finding new and ...