Increases in three climate factors—temperature, rainfall, and ocean warming—predict mosquito population growth in Sri Lanka for the next one to six months.

New simulations shed light on what caused ice sheets to grow in northern Europe during the last ice age and how they grew so fast.

Passive cooling, including some classic ways to fight the heat, really can keep homes from hitting dangerous temperatures.

"For the wildland firefighter, deploying a shelter is the last thing they want to do—it's the final resort, the last line of defense," says Roger Barker.

A new report offers set of principles and guidelines to equitably address extreme heat in cities.

Climate change is on track to interfere with the production of processing tomatoes. That could be bad news for lovers of ketchup and pasta sauce.

Climate change is on track to interfere with the production of processing tomatoes. That could be bad news for lovers of ketchup and pasta sauce.

Oyster shell fossils show the American West was once as hot as today's tropics. "Imagine the climate of Bali, Indonesia, in places like Utah or Wyoming."

Animals have a few ways to survive cold temperatures, but it's not an either-or. "Each cold-survival strategy exists not as a binary but on a spectrum."

Researchers have conducted experiments that measured the physical limits for the existence of liquid water in icy moons.