Southern Alaska’s winter finale delivered a spectacular atmospheric display, captured by a NASA satellite. Cold Arctic air ...

Scientists say as glaciers retreat in a warming climate, landslide-generated tsunamis are likely to become more frequent.

At a seafood expo in Boston last month, Togue Brawn, the founder of the seafood business Downeast Dayboat, spoke up from the ...

Scientists keep a close eye on a region called Niño 3.4, a large area of the tropical Pacific along the equator, roughly ...

Out of all the oil-supply shocks of the past 50 years, the current one, which began after the U.S. and Israel first started striking Iran on Feb. 28, resembles the Gulf War in 1990-91 the most, ...

Oil prices rose by about 80% in the first two to three months of the Gulf War in 1990, compared with almost 100% in today's episode. Out of all the oil-supply shocks of the past 50 years, the current ...

Throughout March in the West, temperatures surged to unprecedented levels for this time of year, due to a remarkable heat dome. Then in April, that record-breaking heat shifted east. In D.C., ...

The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has exposed a reality many policymakers long preferred to avoid: The deterrence model that governed the Gulf for decades is no longer working as intended. For years, ...

The U.S. is blockading Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf in an attempt to choke the nation's economy, which is heavily reliant on oil exports. The move comes as Iran has blockaded the Strait of Hormuz ...

Iran’s armed forces said a U.S. blockade of vessels entering or exiting Iranian ports would constitute an illegal “act of piracy.” If the country’s ports are threatened, “no port in the Persian Gulf ...

Global warming caused by humanity’s carbon emissions has been slowing the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a system of currents including the Gulf Stream that warms Europe. If the ...