Over the past 40 years, atmospheric rivers carrying moisture from the tropics have migrated between 6 and 10 degrees closer ...

Earth's atmospheric rivers are no longer traveling along their historical paths. They are shifting toward both poles, an ...

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

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 ...

To be sure, naturally occurring climate events such as La Nina and El Nino are taking place in the broader context of ...

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 ...

Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are known to raise temperatures in Earth's atmosphere. But slow feedback processes, including heat storage in the ocean and changes in the carbon cycle, mean that ...

Atlantic water temperatures influence summer rainfall on the Tibetan Plateau, shaping water for Central Asia’s rivers, farms, ...

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 ...