Some 2,800 lightning strikes observed Wednesday caused more than 60 new fire starts, satellite imagery showed, according to the National Weather Service. It was one of Oregon’s most extreme days ...

Meteorologists and other atmospheric scientists in the western hemisphere are getting a new and advanced look at the earth ...

Fall officially begins this week and in parts of the state, that will mean the leaves are beginning to change colors.

A trio of Oregon backpackers planned to clean up trash at three alpine lakes in the Three Sisters Wilderness, but had to evacuate due to wildfires ...

In typical years, more Americans die in heat waves than in hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined. Historically, though, ...

The northern lights appear when coronal mass ejections are hurled out by the sun, sending plasma and magnetic material to collide with Earth’s magnetic field. Particles flow along the currents to the ...

You can see it from Portland, Oregon, a wedge of snow and ice between ... He follows it until it dead-ends and adds another 40 feet to his map. The next day, members of the expedition watch ...

The study also found that trees in a wildfire zone can die up to five years later, with islands of surviving trees shrinking ...

The Department of Commerce will help 17 small businesses across nine states research and commercialize new CHIPS technology.

Satellite images ... shown in the above map. Analysis of the data was carried out by Corey Scher of City University of New York Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University.

A new study by an international research team reveals that Ukraine’s forests, covering approximately 11.2 million hectares, ...