At any given time, about two-thirds of Earth's surface is covered by clouds. Overall, they make the planet much cooler than ...

Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to ...

Climate change is making heat waves like the one that lingered over much of the U.S. this week more frequent and intense. The ...

For the study, the researchers analyzed satellite data obtained from 2001 to 2020 to ascertain the global impact of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on global mangroves. As noted, this is a ...

A recent study by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) reveals a looming climate crisis: the world ...

A climate tipping point is a critical threshold where a small environmental change can lead to dramatic and often ...

If scientists of the 19th century could have used modern tools to study the atmosphere, they might have noticed the early ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a statement. “Increased wet season rainfall can lead to more frequent and severe ...

New NASA-led research reveals that global warming is altering wind patterns and shrinking Earth's reflective cloud zones.