Would you pay to drink water recycled from your toilet? A new survey suggests that Americans are surprisingly open to the idea.

An El Niño winter that shifted wildly from warmth to snow also spawned one of our region’s worst tornadoes in decades.

Oil spills in oceans can spell disaster for ecosystems, but options for mitigating them are limited and can come with their own environmental challenges. A new "fire tornado" from Texas A&M University ...

A new report finds 2025 brought widespread drought, massive wildfires and destructive windstorms across several Mountain West states — and underscores how closely connected those disasters have become ...

"Our goal is to harness the chaotic nature of fire whirls as a powerful, precise restoration tool, to protect coastlines, marine ecosystems and the environment as a whole." ...

Every winter Yosemite National Park becomes the stage for one of nature’s most riveting optical illusions: a magnificent waterfall that for a brief moment appears to be made of pure golden fire.

Researchers have run the first large-scale field test of deliberately generated fire whirls over crude oil floating on water, ...

Dozens of Ray County, Missouri, residents are in need after a massive wildfire swept through Henrietta on Thursday. While no ...

A lightning strike sparked a fire that burned hundreds of palm trees at a nursery in unincorporated Escondido. Early reports estimated about 100 trees caught fire, but a battalion chief at the scene ...

Researchers from Texas A&M and UC Berkeley have successfully conducted the first large-scale experiment using fire whirls to ...