Spruce Pine provides 90% of the world's quartz. Quartz is used to produce silicon, a vital component of semiconductors in ...

MIT spinout Electrified Thermal teams with HWI to mass-produce clean energy E-bricks that replace fossil fuels in heavy ...

Tucson's record summer heat was a harbinger of things to come, meaning more 100-degree days and 80-degree nights, climate experts say. The outlook for more "nonsoons," however, is murkier.

Death Valley is surprisingly biodiverse, but you couldn’t tell by looking at it. Sitting around waiting for the start of the Badwater 135, a 135-mile ultramarathon between here and Mount Whitney in ...

The heat and humidity are on the way. How hot we'll get and when we'll cool down here. Read more. A bit of haze Monday, but mostly sunny ALERT DAY Wednesday for dangerous heat, will feel like ...

Lightning’s extreme heat will vaporize the water inside a tree, creating steam that may blow the tree apart. It can also send electrical currents quickly through water and metal.

Augusta’s overnight warming shelter secures funding for payroll, heating bill Augusta officials agreed to give $13,450 in opioid settlement funds to replenish the warming center.