Geoengineering does little to defuse most of the risks that really matter for people – and it runs the risk of making some harms worse ...

A new study published in the Journal of Climate reveals how surface warming in Antarctica, particularly over the Antarctic ...

El Nino, a term that often graces our weather forecasts, is a fascinating natural phenomenon that plays a significant role in shaping weather patterns around the world. If you're embarking on a ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

West-east near-surface current trend between 1993-2022. Blue colors show increased westward currents; red colors show increased eastward currents. The largest trends are observed in the central ...

Mapping showing the Mann–Kendall test for TXx, TXn, TNx, and TNn during 1961–2020 in China. Red triangles pointing up and blue triangles pointing down represent statistically significant (α = 0.05) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atmospheric rivers are long filaments of moisture that curve poleward. Several are visible in this satellite image. Bin Guan, NASA ...

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...

Fresh evidence from sediment cores, satellite records, and deep-ocean sensors is converging on a troubling finding: meltwater ...

High above our heads and unseen to the naked eye, rivers of water vapor flow through the atmosphere. These "atmospheric rivers" are crucial to the global water cycle. Astonishingly, they have the ...