Biologists found significant blunt-force trauma on the right side of the head of a 3-year-old whale and suspect it was hit by a vessel.

San Diego scientists are collecting samples of ash from California's coast to measure how toxins and urban debris from the Los Angeles wildfires could affect nearby fisheries and the food webs of local ecosystems.

When the recent wildfires tore through Los Angeles, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, they also sent plumes of smoke out over the ocean.

Ash from the Los Angeles Palisades and Eaton fires has been found by ocean researchers up to 100 miles away in the Pacific near San Nicolas Island.

Forecasts indicate that an atmospheric river will bring heavy rain and snowfall to much of the Pacific Northwest starting late this week and lasting through the weekend. With persistent heavy rainfall, flash flooding could become a concern for residents across the region.

A La Niña winter just started, but it isn’t expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season. A new long-range forecast released Thursday shows broad weather predictions for February, March and April nationwide ...

The devastating fires in Los Angeles have numerous secondary effects as scientists are finding out now off the coast of Southern California.Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center were collecting samples off the California Coast when the Palisades,

As wind-driven wildfires spread through the Los Angeles area in January 2025, fire-spotting technology and computer models were helping firefighters understand the rapidly changing environment they were facing.

What made the wildfires devastating was their path through the Palisades, where home values hover around $3.4 million and aging structures were tightly packed in a recognized high-risk fire zone.

These weather systems aren't rare but bring huge amounts of rainfall which can lead to dangerous landslides and flooding.

Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil might be the most known weather-predicting groundhog, but a new study is throwing shade on how much his predictions should be trusted. Phil did so poorly that taxidermied critters are better at forecasting an early spring.