At first a response to extreme weather, the 2010 Telework Enhancement Act prepared agencies for a different type of disaster ...

As the state quite literally froze over and his constituents went without basic necessities, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his ...

Weather forecasting is not easy. The truth is that predicting future weather conditions over broad, or even narrow, swaths of ...

Stratospheric polar vortex changes still trigger brutal U.S. winter cold snaps and extreme weather despite a warming climate.

While many questions remain unanswered, and communities across the state are only in the beginning stages of recovery, it is ...

The director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency sent his federal counterpart a letter this month urging the ...

The cycle swings between warmer and cooler seawater in a region along the equator in the tropical Pacific. La Niña is marked by cooler-than-average ocean water in the region. It is one of ...

Plant hardiness zones are shifting northward nationwide as the country continues to warm, affecting farmers, gardeners and ...

As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump administration is dismantling the government’s ...

The mechanism involves atmospheric waves that bounce between the upper atmosphere and ground level, amplifying weather patterns and making them more extreme. Scientists call this “stratospheric wave ...

The Texas Supreme Court overturned a jury’s $89.6 million judgment against Omaha-based Werner Enterprises for a December 2014 crash that killed a 7-year-old boy.