At the current level of human-caused global warming, extreme rainfall from atmospheric rivers, as well as an extensive network of previously undetected micro-cracks, could degrade large parts of the ...

Statnett faces many challenges familiar to transmission operators worldwide, but Norway’s unique environment brings its own set of extreme difficulties. Transmission lines in mountainous areas bear ...

Lake Erie has turned into a vast sheet of ice, with more than 95% of its surface locked in place after weeks of punishing Arctic air. What is usually a restless, wind-churned lake is now behaving more ...

Sea ice that packs the ocean around Antarctica hit record low levels this winter, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said on Monday, adding to scientists’ fears that the impact of ...