In Alaska, houses are built to keep warm air in and cold air out, not the other way around. So with a record-setting heat wave scorching the state, residents are sweltering amidst temperatures soaring past 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius).
After an especially cold winter across much of the United States, the American public was slightly less convinced that the planet is heating up, a new survey shows.
Future stratospheric systems could change how the world goes online.
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A lost city known only from inscriptions that existed some 1,200 years ago near Angkor in what is now Cambodia has been uncovered using airborne laser scanning.
A very large dead zone, an area of water with no or very little oxygen, is expected to form in the Gulf of Mexico this year.
Ice shelves lose more mass where the ice meets the sea than previously thought.
By 2045, humans will achieve digital immortality by uploading their minds to computers — or at least that's what some futurists believe.
Cities and coastal areas around the world are getting their act together in preparation for the effects of climate change.
Jun 20, 2013; 5:00 AM ET What was once difficult to measure is now being done. Researchers have found a new way to determine the amount of evaporation globally. Valerie Smock explains how it's done.
