At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...

Scientists tracking Earth’s water from space discovered that El Niño and La Niña are synchronizing floods and droughts across ...

Behind flood and bushfire disasters is a less visible influence: changes in the planet’s water cycle. Rainfall and ...

Earth’s slow axial wobbles—known as precession cycles—do not just shape long-term climate trends. A new study led by ...

As the climate changes, scientists are concerned about how well plants and animals will adapt to rapid warming. A new ...

Climate change also alters nitrogen in soils and plants, shaping food quality, water safety, and pollution risks worldwide.

Climate troublemaker La Niña is forecast to continue influencing our weather here in the U.S. for the remainder of winter.

Scientists studying Jurassic rocks in China found that cyclical changes in Earth's orbit affected not only the climate, but ...

To reach the alarming conclusion, the study reviewed 30 years of field experiments and global model simulations to assess how ...

Over the past two decades ENSO, a climate pattern in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that includes El Niño and La Niña, has been ...