Intense wildfires in western Canada have sent huge plumes of smoke sweeping across North America in recent days — pollution that has been captured in images by NASA satellites, aircraft and ...

Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer named Thorfinn Karlsefni set off from the west coast of ... European baby born in North America. Thorfinn and his band ...

The Pineapple Express is a stream of moisture in the atmosphere that delivers humid air from the tropical Pacific to the West ...

But Europe has something that North America doesn't, when it comes to protection against hurricanes. Location. Hurricanes usually form off the coast of West Africa, where warm water near the ...

Geologically, the West Coast of North America is one of the oldest coastlines on earth, but its amazing fossils are little known even to local residents. Which is why, over the past ten years ...

The friendly rivalry between the East Coast and the West Coast of America runs deep. Whereas the East Coast has a reputation for being fast-paced, hard-working and steeped in tradition and ...