Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an alarming rate. If it breaks apart entirely, it could push up global sea ...

Small changes to aircraft flight paths to avoid the atmospheric conditions that create condensation trails—known as contrails ...

Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that it could leave some locations shattering their all-time temperature ...

Physical inactivity rises alongside temperature. A study in Lancet projected up to 700,000 additional deaths by 2050 and $3.68 billion in annual productivity losses.

A "super El Niño" could emerge by the end of the 2026 hurricane season, with forecasters predicting that the ongoing La Niña ...

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years ...

A study says warming has accelerated in the last decade, with temperatures rising nearly twice as fast as they did between 1970 and 2015.

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of strange plume-like structures hidden deep inside the Greenland ice sheet. New research suggests they form through thermal convection—slow, swirling ...

El Nino is increasingly likely to return later this year, bringing potentially significant impacts to our weather, the ...

The episode of extreme rainfall that affected the east of the Iberian Peninsula at the end of October 2024 left a devastating ...

Researchers have uncovered a universal pattern showing how temperature affects life on Earth. Across thousands of species—from microbes to reptiles—performance rises gradually with warming until an ...

A potentially strong El Niño weather pattern will likely emerge this summer and persist through the rest of the year. The hottest years on record generally occur in years when El Niño is active.