Stretching from Montana to Missouri, the Missouri River basin is one of the country's largest river systems. Over the past ...

Regional climate variability plays a big role, but reduced forest cover and a rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide are also ...

Some local experts say discourse has gone too far.

A new study finds that atmospheric rivers — the heavy rain and wind events most known for dousing California and other parts of the West — have been getting bigger, wetter and more frequent in the ...

As Northern Virginia deals with increased strain on the electric grid from data center development, and hotter and colder ...

Snow-covered area in February across the western United States was 13 percent below average, at 822,000 square kilometers (317,000 square miles) of snow cover, ranking sixteenth highest in the 25-year ...

Until recently, they were thought only to exacerbate Arctic ice loss. But in March 2022, an intense atmospheric river delivered 16 billion tons of snow to Greenland. That was enough snow to offset the ...

One of the staff, who spoke to Vanguard on the condition of anonymity, said: “The atmosphere in the Assembly this morning is very tensed with heavy security around the Assembly. “It was ...

California's water storage capacity falls short, unable to capture excess water from recent atmospheric rivers. Only 4% of 5.1 million acre-feet flowing into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta could be ...