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Next month, the temperature averages meteorologists use will get an update. It means the warmer climate will — quite literally — become the new "normal," posing a challenge for forecasters.

After hours of rescues on stormy seas, the Viking Sky cruise ship was able to regain control of its engine and reach the Norway port of Molde on Sunday.

The whale has not been seen since Saturday, and is likely either in the open bay or has returned to the ocean.

40 tons of abandoned fishing gear is a start, but the problem of plastic pollution in the oceans is almost unimaginable in scale.

Jackie Sones knows the area around Bodega way really well. As a research coordinator with the Bodega Marine Reserve, she visits the shoreline nearly every day. On June 18, she saw something she’d never seen before: hundreds or maybe thousands of dead mussels along the shores of Bodega Bay. “I’ve been working here for about … Continue reading Interview: Researcher on Bodega Bay Mussel Die-Off →

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Southern California Thursday didn't trigger early warning systems in Los Angeles. For an explanation, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with seismologist Lucy Jones.

Just hours earlier, another judge ruled that the change could take effect because it was "in the greater public interest to allow the administration to carry out its immigration policy."

Storms, warmer waters and coral-eating starfish have harmed the iconic coral reef system off Australia's coast. Now the Australian government has announced a plan to boost funding for the reef.

A Category 1 hurricane may not sound like much, but it can still cause significant damage to specific areas. Dauphin Island in Alabama is a tiny barrier island, and it got walloped by the storm.

This year will go down in history for its extreme weather. Researchers have now definitively attributed three major extreme weather events to climate change.