Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an ...

Paris — Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached record highs in 2023, the United Nations warned on Monday, saying countries are falling "miles short" of what's needed to curb ...

Professor Jasper Knight of the University of the Witwatersrand explained that day-to-day weather changes, like heavy rain or ...

Hurricane season is heating up: Hurricane Francine hit Louisiana last week and dumped rain across the South. There's lots of other stormy activity in the Atlantic right now — and forecasters are ...

This is the first episode of Nature Quest, a monthly Short Wave segment that answers listener questions about your local environment. Every month, we'll be bringing you a question from a fellow ...