There's a place on Earth where lightning flashes almost every night—until, one day, it stopped. What causes the Catatumbo ...

While just a coincidence in timing coming on the heels of the storm, the magnitude 3.7 quake struck just before midnight and was centered just 7 miles northwest of Malibu, according to the U.S.

Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort announced Friday that two patrol staff were caught in an avalanche on Lincoln Mountain. The event occurred during avalanche mitigation work, following the significant ...

Many atmospheric river events are weak. But the powerful ones can transport extraordinary amounts of moisture. Studies have ...

The weather phenomena are common for California winters, but they could cause dangerous debris flows or mudslides in recently ...

narrow tracts of the Earth’s atmosphere that gather moisture from the tropics near the equator and sweep it toward the poles. They can vary greatly in size and strength, however, the average ...

Students had questions. The answers came from an astronaut in the International Space Station in an out of this world school ...

Scientists have identified a new threat that could disrupt the commercial airspace as at least three deadly crashes have ...

Another atmospheric river is expected to bring heavy rain to most parts of ... Atmospheric rivers – sometimes referred to as "rivers in the sky" – are long, narrow tracts of the Earth’s atmosphere ...

Pineapple Express has drenched Northern California in the last few days—but what exactly is it? How common is it? Also, go ...

Some of us remember the first Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 1970. We pulled old bedsprings and tires out of local rivers and urged a ban on phosphates that fueled weed growth in streams and ...

Several roads in Sutter County were closed due to flooding, including three that cross the Sutter Bypass, which is once again filling with overflow from the Sacramento River to be transported across ...