Three states are deploying snowplows this winter with custom-designed sensors to better monitor weather and road conditions.

Using new satellite data, scientists have developed a technique that may produce continually updated, 24-hour predictions of wildfire growth throughout the lifetime of long-lived blazes.

Scientists find that an atmospheric pattern can foreshadow the emergence of summertime heat waves in the United States more than two weeks in advance.

Though Hurricane Sandy struck almost a year ago, the fearsome cyclone lives on within the circuits of supercomputers that are replicating its unusual evolution and track.

Four days of rainfall across Colorado’s Front Range produced massive flooding that’s marooned thousands, inundated key roads, and damaged countless homes and businesses. Just how rare was this event?