Some 2,800 lightning strikes observed Wednesday caused more than 60 new fire starts, satellite imagery showed, according to ...

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 ...

USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington fans undoubtedly know the Big Ten Network (BTN) is easier to find than the Pac-12 Networks. It has roughly four times the distribution (60 million homes compared ...

A family used an iPhone feature to survive after they came lost in a freezing forest in Oregon, The Chronicle ... family activated the Emergency SOS via satellite feature on their iPhone for ...

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

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 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.