About a year ago, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the extratropical cyclones that are the biggest ...

Lunar-based measurements reveal Earth’s outgoing radiation is dominated by low-order spherical harmonics, providing unified global data for climate and environmental studies ...

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other ...

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 ...

The defining challenge of the 21st century is not technological capacity, economic growth, or political power; it is whether ...

Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes ...

No, this is not some new geological era, epoch or age. No, it is not some science fiction story either. But yes, we find ourselves at a new point in human history where, for the first time, ...

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

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

A better understanding of these teleconnections could improve weather forecasting Research from the University of Michigan has shown how global ...

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

Scientists have detected a major drop in salinity in one of the world’s saltiest ocean regions. The change could affect monsoons, marine life and global climate systems, raising new concerns about the ...