A new study found trees in temperate forests aren’t as effective at absorbing carbon as some climate models assume.

In recent weeks Europe sweltered under intense heatwaves, while southern South America had record low temperatures. How far ...

It divides the world into five primary climate zones: tropical, arid, temperate, continental, and polar.

One study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the other study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located ...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

Temperate climates are considered to be those found between the polar climates and the tropical climates. In these regions , temperatures can change quite a bit during the year and there are usually ...

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, ...

Climate change has already caused significant declines in coral reef coverage globally and is expected to do much further ...

Here we present a 155-year ENSO reconstruction from a central tropical Pacific coral that provides new evidence for long-term changes in the regional mean climate and its variability.

Tropical cyclones (TCs) rank among the most destructive weather phenomena, often bringing intense winds, heavy rainfall, and ...

The mechanism involves atmospheric waves that bounce between the upper atmosphere and ground level, amplifying weather patterns and making them more extreme. Scientists call this “stratospheric wave ...