Discover how California wildfires are impacting Idaho residents with ties to the Golden State as devastating fires continue to ravage Southern California, affecting thousands of lives.

The Northern Lights forecast is looking up in the wake of a series of several large solar X-ray flares, with the nights of Saturday, Jan. 4 and Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, potentially featuring aurora in northern and Midwest U.S. states.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shared an image of a cute little “hitchhiker” found while collecting coral samples in the Gulf of Mexico. “Oh. My. Goodness. WOW,” researchers said in a Jan. 7 Instagram post accompanying a video of what they jokingly called the “cutest, spikiest, tiniest little crab in the world.”

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), NASA and Copernicus—the EU's meteorological association—released their annual global temperature analyses [Friday]. They all found that Earth has warmed roughly 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 ...

A La Niña winter just started, but it isn't expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season.

A La Niña winter just started, but it isn't expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season.