The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

Climate change is disturbing wind patterns across the globe in dramatic ways. And when combined with land-use change and desertification, these changes are spawning immense sand and dust storms that ...

About a year ago, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the extratropical cyclones that are the biggest drivers of winter weather in the Great Lakes region are warming and trending ...

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Climate change makes nitrous oxide disappear faster, creating new uncertainty for future climate and ozone predictions.

One of the consequences of climate change is that weather events are becoming more extreme. In counterintuitive ways, like ...

Across the coldest places on Earth, something quiet but powerful is happening beneath your feet and under the ice. As ...

El Niño could influence severe weather and hurricane seasons in the United States later this year.

Scientists have developed a powerful new way to trace the journey of water across the planet by reading tiny atomic clues hidden inside it. Slightly heavier versions of hydrogen and oxygen, called ...

As the planet warms, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, a massive global study shows that species turnover has slowed by about one-third since the 1970s. Nature’s constant ...