Forecasters might soon be able to predict El Niño events years in advance. The catch? Those events will pack a much harder punch. Research suggests that by the second half of this century, El Niño ...

The world's oceans may be quietly amplifying climate change in ways scientists are only beginning to understand. In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University ...

Climate science sits at one of the most charged intersections of human knowledge and human politics. Almost everyone has an opinion about it, yet very few people have taken the time to carefully ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

Forests are a cornerstone of the Earth system, playing a vital role in regulating climate and sustaining ecosystems by storing carbon, cycling nutrients, and controlling water availability. In the ...

The largest gains in carbon biomass are projected in the desert and semi-arid zones, followed by the trans-Himalaya, Indo-Gangetic Plain, and Deccan Peninsula ...

A key Atlantic Ocean current system that helps regulate the planet's climate could weaken more than expected by 2100, with ...

The Earth's climate system derives its energy from the Sun and any variations in the balance between energy received and emitted by the Earth can change the climate. Variations can be caused by ...

We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around the world that was made more likely by human-caused climate change. Climate Matters is ...