Big northern lights: What's the trigger?
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NASA is launching satellites Friday to determine what's behind destructive energy pulses.
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Description: A study released Monday that says that global warming is particularly intense in the Arctic. The melting of glaciers, thinning sea ice and changes in permafrost have acute impacts on Arctic residents
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Giant electrical circuits power the magical open-air light show of the auroras, forming arcs in high-latitude regions like Scandinavia.
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Earlier blooms. Less snow to shovel. Unseasonable warm spells. Signs that winters in the Northeast are losing their bite have been abundant in recent years and now researchers have nailed down numbers to show just how big the changes have been.
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A huge sunspot kicked up a powerful flare Monday that could spark colorful sky lights above Earth Tuesday night or early Wednesday.
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YELLOWKNIFE - The most comprehensive study of Arctic climate change ever made has some dramatic news for Canada&#39;s North. The report, which will be released next week, says that the most rapid climate change on earth is happening in the Arctic.
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This week&#39;s issue of Nature features the first study to demonstrate a link between greenhouse gas emissions and an extreme weather event - in this case, the unusually high temperatures in Europe during the summer of 2003 that led to 14,000 deaths more
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The launch of a Nasa mission to study the phenomenon known as the Northern Lights is delayed due to high winds.
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A comprehensive four-year study of warming in the Arctic shows that heat-trapping gases from tailpipes and smokestacks around the world are contributing to profound environmental changes
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By Matt Krupnick, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 17--BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley scientists will wait at least another day to study the lights in the northern sky.
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Astronomers expect a spectacular display of the Northern Lights in Irish skies tonight.
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The explosive death of a massive star has broken the record for longest-lived light show. Observations from NASA's Swift satellite have revealed a so-called gamma-ray burst for which the afterglow remained visible for more than 125 days.
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Stringing a few festive lights satisfies most people, but Peter Terren of Tesla Downunder lights up a high-voltage Christmas tree. See it and his other electrical creations, which are gaining international attention.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 2--It's even more predictable than the weather. Plenty of people,  when they hear that an international panel of scientists is saying today that  it's "very likely" human activity is causing global warming, will point to  Thursday's winter storm.
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Pollution from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research. Changes in the North Pacific storm track could have an impact on weather across the Northern Hemisphere. Satellite measurements have shown an increase in tiny particles generated from coal burning in China and India in recent decades, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Talk about timing. Sunday's northeaster, which brought more than a foot of snow to spots in New England, was a lot easier to take for most people than last Thursday's commuting headache. The blustery storm carried strong winds, ice, and sleet, and made young skiers and riders count the days until the upcoming vacation week.
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Alek Komarnitsky claims to have brought a little holiday cheer via a hoax. Komarnitsky received a great deal of press and fanfare for running a website that claimed to allow visitors to control his outdoor Christmas lights by turning them on and off.