Winter weather patterns, like temperature inversions, trap pollution close to the ground. Holiday activities such as wood burning and fireworks significantly worsen air quality. Particle pollution can ...

The air above our clouds is extremely warm for this time of the year. Trump rages that New York Times and others are ‘seditious ... even treasonous’ to report that he’s not in great health Exclusive: ...

What began as a murky stretch of gray across the Bay Area is now settling into a week defined by stubborn Tule fog, colder-than-normal daytime highs and an incoming burst of offshore winds, according ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - A temperature inversion is like a special weather situation where the normal pattern of temperature change with height gets flipped. Normally, as you go higher up in elevation, ...

Go back to a cold morning. (It could even be when you woke up this Tuesday morning.) Other WRAL Top Stories Do you recall smelling your neighbor's fireplace? Maybe you heard a train and thought, "I ...

The Floss Silk Tree, a conspicuous “autumn bloomer” here and there around San Diego, has been showing off its pinkish or purplish hibiscus-like flowers for at least a month now. The broad, heavy trunk ...

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Most biochemical reactions accelerate as temperature increases, but our daily circadian rhythms, which are underlain by gene regulatory and biochemical networks, remain constant, even as temperatures ...

A third official heat wave is expected to descend this weekend, with record-breaking temperatures possible in Scotland. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a London-based reporter on The Times’s ...

What if the secret to getting ahead wasn’t about doing more, but about avoiding the wrong moves altogether? Imagine standing at the edge of a maze, not searching for the entrance but tracing your way ...

There's a lot of technology that goes into modern tires. From knobby off-road tires to high-performance summer-sport rubber, there are all sorts of tires for just about every activity you can think of ...