Dai’s initial results have revealed that rainfall was low in South Africa during the last glacial maximum and increased as ...

These hands-on projects are a highly engaging way for high school students to explore aerodynamics and physics.

She was purifying a boronic ester building block using routine column chromatography. Some of the dichloromethane solvent ...

Scientists are using controlled fires to study how to protect homes from wildfires. At a site in South Carolina, researchers ...

On a snowy February morning, Toby Rodgers strapped on a pair of snowshoes and trudged across a snowy field in Washington’s Cascade mountains. Rodgers, a hydrologist for the U.S. Department of ...

SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. — This year, the Northwest Avalanche Center marks 50 years of backcountry avalanche forecasting. It's a milestone that traces back to two curious graduate students and a mission ...

Snowmobiling through the Sierras is one way to get from place to place when conducting the mysterious and important work of snow hydrology. One can also mix in a bit of backcountry skiing or boarding ...

A major winter storm has pummeled much of the East Coast, dumping around two feet of snow on cities and scuttling travel, work and school for millions of Americans between Virginia and Maine. The ...

For years, satellite data suggested that autumn snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere was actually increasing — a surprising twist in a warming world. But a new analysis reveals that this apparent ...

With temperatures soaring up to 78 degrees in areas of Colorado in February, it’s become increasingly clear this is not the winter climate residents are used to. This season’s low snowpack affects all ...