The Southern Ocean has long stood out as an oddity in the global climate system. While most of the planet's surface oceans ...

A newer "climate-friendly" refrigerant used in car air conditioning systems may already be a significant, and possibly ...

The current El Nino weather pattern is expected to become one of the strongest ever recorded, according to leading climate ...

A slowing Atlantic Ocean current is projected to intensify powerful storms in California while reducing snowfall over ...

Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and ...

A viral TikTok is drawing attention to a messy but important reality of climate science: Sometimes the tools used to estimate emissions need to be corrected. What's happening? In ...

A Duke study has found that fragments of colorful airborne plastic are heating the planet. When plastic products break down, ...

These plants helped pull carbon dioxide from the ancient atmosphere and lock it away in rock and soil. Hundreds of millions ...

A pioneering climate scientist is challenging a U.S. government report that cited his research while reaching what he says is the exact opposite conclusion. Benjamin Santer and his colleagues say ...

Critics say the move to retire the $360 million system doesn't make sense. The National Science Foundation cites new ...

More than 140 million people were under heat alerts, the outlet said, with dead bodies found in “homes with no air ...

Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region's reservoir system turned this year's drought conditions into an emergency.