As the planet warms, past episodes of the natural weather phenomenon may no longer be a reliable guide of how the next one ...

As a grueling March heat wave batters the U.S. West with dangerous temperatures, and the world girds itself for what could be another sizzling record-smashing Super El Niño, a team of researchers has ...

Global warming has picked up speed over the past decade, and the consequences are no longer confined to glaciers or distant coastlines. Extreme heat now affects one in three people worldwide, making ...

The findings, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, show that colored micro- and nanoplastics suspended in the ...

As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...