When the bubonic plague reached England in the summer of 1348 — spread by fleas, lice, or infected humans, according to the latest theories — it reached a breeding ground for disease. Londoners’ ...

Tree-ring data reveal that periodic shifts in strong winds high above the Earth's surface have driven opposite climates in different parts of Europe for the past 700 years and likely much longer, ...

BOULDER, Colo. — There’s a river of air thousands of feet above our heads called the jet stream. And new research shows that the peak wind speeds in the jet stream are getting faster as the atmosphere ...

Smoke from wildfires in the Pacific Northwest will move into Central Indiana overnight, lasting through Sept. 5, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) Indianapolis, which said to expect hazy ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Colorado will remain in the middle of a chilly and unsettled stretch of weather this weekend. It's all due to the current jet stream pattern with a huge trough of low pressure in the ...

A new study in Nature Climate Change takes one of the first deep dives into how climate change will affect the fastest jet streams—the powerful, narrow winds in the upper atmosphere that steer much of ...