Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are known to raise temperatures in Earth's atmosphere. But slow feedback processes, ...

BEIJING — Just because Earth is warming to extreme highs doesn’t mean freezing temperatures will disappear. In 2023, Earth ...

Atmospheric rivers are long filaments of moisture that curve poleward. Several are visible in this satellite image. Bin Guan, NASA/JPL-Caltech and UCLA ...

Rainfall fluctuates more vigorously. Why? Scientists say it's because of us. Many people around the world have noticed that rainfall is becoming increasingly erratic. Intense downpours are occurring ...

Scientists have confirmed that East Antarctica's interior is warming faster than its coastal areas and identified the cause.

One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year — El Niño — is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Niña, is on the way. Whether that’s a relief or not depends ...

Northeast Greenland is home to the 79° N Glacier – the country’s largest floating glacier tongue, but also one seriously threatened by global warming: warm water from the Atlantic is melting it from ...

Dynamical mechanisms for the summer Eurasian circulation trend pattern are investigated by analyzing reanalysis data and conducting numerical model simulations. The daily circulations that resemble ...

New research suggests that a rapidly warming Arctic is driving long-lasting summer extremes, like this month’s sweltering temperatures. Temperatures are finally falling in the eastern U.S. as a ...