In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech have used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially ...

A flash flood in Allegany and Garrett counties has stretched local emergency systems and emphasizes the need to turn climate ...

The Chesapeake Bay is the continental United States' largest estuary, spanning approximately 320 kilometers (200 miles) ...

Meet the fearless pilots chasing sky rivers — massive, invisible storms stretching from Japan to California. These atmospheric rivers can unleash devastating floods or help end droughts, and tracking ...

These are the emerging challenges Louisiana and the nation are struggling to content with on the lower Mississippi River.

Climate change makes heavy rain even heavier, beginning with warmer waters in the Gulf of Mexico that produce more ...

An ongoing research project on the Yukon and Koyukuk rivers aims to give communities short-term information about erosion in ...