Earth’s rotation is slowing as melting ice moves across the planet. New research says it’s driven by climate change and is ...

Everyone has a storm story—whether it's that time you just escaped a downpour, or the hailstorm that wrote off your car. Even ...

A circle running along the 27° east and 153° west meridians divides the globe into two halves with equal reflectivity – and ...

Earth is divided into two halves: the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Both reflect equal amounts of sunlight (albedo) even ...

Across much of the world, climate change has already shifted the timing of the year’s largest flood, with the direction of ...

New research suggests Earth’s climate can swing wildly on surprisingly short timescales — even during hot, ice-free ...

"During the Late Cretaceous, atmospheric CO2 levels reached about 1,000 parts per million — comparable to projections for the ...

While global warming is still a threat, the decision to back away from a worst-case outlook raises questions about whether ...

The effect is tiny, measured in milliseconds, but researchers say the trend is now occurring at a rate not seen in the past 3 ...

A new study in Nature Climate Change takes one of the first deep dives into how climate change will affect the fastest jet streams—the powerful, narrow winds in the upper atmosphere that steer much of ...

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...