In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently in scientific papers and in media coverage.

STORY: A powerful atmospheric river pounded Washington state and the Pacific Northwest this week, killing at least two people ...

Atmospheric ... river in North America and has a watershed that reaches 32 states, according to the national park service. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, atmospheric ...

Nearly all the world’s countries pledged to strive to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius in the Paris Agreement, which scientists said would prevent cascading and worsening impacts ...

New research examines how much global warming has sapped the Colorado River since 2000 ... effects of increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have become increasingly apparent over ...

Researchers have discovered a major shift in atmospheric rivers, which is impacting weather patterns around the world.

Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, is also routinely flared into the atmosphere at oil fields in the U.S., Middle East, Russia and elsewhere, contributing to global warming.

The Network for Greening the Financial System painted a dire picture of the impact of global warming on the world economy, noting that its worst-case scenario foresees four times as much damage as ...

Meteorologists monitor them, but the ability to predict exactly how an atmospheric river might behave based on its underlying ... Atmospheric rivers are an essential element of the global climate, and ...

Demographic growth has been driven by urban sprawl in river valleys and coastal plains ... also paying for 30 years of climate inaction. Global warming is boosting these storm episodes.

A popular park in British Columbia's Lower Mainland remains closed due to damage from an atmospheric river weather system that drenched the province's south coast, triggering a mudslide and local ...

Australia-wide, only 4% of our river gauges are measuring increased ... Australia’s oceans are warming faster than the global average. But the oceans off south-east Australia and the Tasman ...