Less than three months after turning off its public fountains in response to the historic drought now gripping most of California, the city of Palm Springs has decided to reverse course and turn many of those fountains back on again, a move that has surprised many in the Southern California community. A few fountains already had been turned back on by Sunday after the Palm Springs city council voted unanimously last week to allow it, after the local water utility...

Climate change is causing wind patterns to change over the Pacific Ocean, leading to longer commercial airline flight times and causing airplanes to burn more fuel and emit more greenhouse gases. Those are the conclusions of a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, showing that the shifting jet stream over the Pacific Ocean is increasing flight times between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland, leading to more of the pollution that fuels climate change. Previous...

The planet experienced its , according to a new report released Thursday, which confirms that land temperatures, sea surface temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations all reached historic levels last year. The , published July 16 in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, represents the work of more than 400 scientists from 58 countries around the world. "The variety of indicators shows us how our climate is changing, not just in temperature but from the depths of the oceans to...