For more than twenty years, satellite measurements have shown that the Earth is reflecting less sunlight, affecting its ...

"The range of possible outcomes is a lot wider than anybody has appreciated until now." ...

Climate change is the long-term shift in the Earth's average temperatures and weather conditions. The world has been warming ...

The polar vortex is shifting in ways that could unleash extreme cold, violent storms, and unstable weather patterns across ...

Although Earth’s two hemispheres lie on opposite sides of the planet and differ in many ways, they share a peculiar ...

The planet continues to warm due to human activity; bouts of cold weather don’t change this. Satellites around the world measure temperatures at different places throughout the year. These are ...

Atmospheric chemist Faye McNeill, however, sounds a cautionary note: The actual effects might not match simulations, she says ...

Most of Earth's fresh water is locked in the ice that covers Antarctica. As the ocean and atmosphere grow warmer, that ice is melting at a startling pace with sea levels and global currents changing ...

We have been through an interesting month of weather. Most of it has been dry, but we have seen these heavy rain events about once every 10 days or so that have kept us out of worse drought conditions ...