As soon as Elon Musk’s secretive DOGE wrecking crew started its government demolition project, WIRED’s reporters were ...

A wildlife corridor plans to connect two Superfund sites at the former Rocky Flats plutonium plant and the Rocky Mountain ...

The critical infrastructure provided by NOAA and NWS cannot and will never be duplicated by the private sector.

Peter Hitchcock is a professor of Earth and atmospheric science at Cornell University.

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics from the University of L’Aquila, in Italy, in 2018. He moved to Cornell in the ...

As the name suggests, permafrost was long considered to be permanent. But more recently, researchers have come to realize ...

Ice loss in Greenland is already large, irreversible, and greatly accelerated after centuries of near stability. Though a ...

The evidence is mounting that vast changes are not only possible, but increasingly likely as the Earth warms. But how close ...

At some point, melting ice in the North Atlantic—caused by increased global warming—will cause so much freshwater to be ...

The increasingly broad application of the phrase "tipping point" across biogeophysical and social phenomena muddles its ...