An area that has seen floods in the past when the spring was unusually rainy or tropical storms were unusually fierce, is ...

Frozen air from Antarctica is giving scientists a longer look at a climate mystery that has lingered for decades: why Earth ...

For more than 30 years, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization has told us how terrible things are getting with ...

Global heating has moved from a distant threat to a defining feature of daily life, with temperature records and disaster tallies now reading like warnings that arrived too late. Scientists who once ...

Climate change can be explained by six simple facts: It’s real! It’s us! Experts agree! It’s bad! Others care! There’s hope! Present day climate change denial instead targets the remaining three facts ...

New geological data indicate that marine life is somewhat resilient to warming in the tropics. Chris Fokkema, Earth scientist at Utrecht University, discovered that tropical algae were largely ...

Ciaran Doolin works as a meteorologist at MetService – Te Ratonga Tirorangi. Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time. My ...

The dangerous heat wave shattering March records all over the U.S. Southwest is more than just another extreme weather blip.

The Arctic last season was the hottest it has been in the past 125 years. The extent of sea ice during its usual maximum in March was the lowest in 47 years of satellite recordkeeping. The North ...

Climate change is lengthening our days because rising sea levels slow Earth's rotation. Researchers from the University of Vienna and ETH Zurich now show that the current increase in day length—1.33 ...

The rate of global warming has surged since 2015 and is now nearly double what it was in the 1970s, according to a study 1 that tackles one of the hottest debates among climate scientists. Because the ...