Ocean temperature patterns appear to act as a natural brake on the global spread of drought, preventing vast areas of the ...

Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ocean. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of ...

A climate model running for thousands of simulated years has produced severe, decades-long droughts over the Maya lowlands without any volcanic eruptions, solar shifts, or other external triggers. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around for a long time. A really, really long time. A new study says the dance ...

Have you ever wondered why Earth goes through massive climate swings, from freezing ice ages to warmer periods like today? Scientists just cracked a code hidden in ancient rocks that's been driving ...

A new study found that not all geoengineering ideas are created equal. Brightening marine clouds over the eastern Pacific could dramatically weaken the El Niño cycle, triggering major changes to ...

In order to understand the Earth's resilience, researchers at ETH Zurich are modeling climate changes from times long past. And they show that plants are not simply victims of circumstances, but have ...

Forecasters predict that the upcoming El Niño could be among the stronger events on record, and it could likely develop into ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that the Earth’s climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age – known as Snowball Earth. During ...

Over the course of hundreds of millions of years, Earth has lived through a series of climatic shifts, shaping the planet as we know it today. Past changes in CO 2 levels and temperature can help us ...