Beneath the ocean’s surface, an unseen system works without pause. Tiny microbes drift through the water, breaking down ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First predicted to form last summer, climate troublemaker La Niña has developed at last, federal climate scientists announced ...

Past Center surveys have found that Americans with higher levels of formal education are more likely to say human activity is a big cause of climate change. This pattern is driven by Democrats. In ...

Extreme precipitation is increasing in many regions as the atmosphere warms and holds more moisture, leading to more intense rainfall events and, paradoxically, prolonged dry spells. These shifts ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich reveals that a key part of the climate system—the large-scale wind patterns that determine where rain falls—can be underestimated by current ...

A powerful El Niño event is officially underway, with the World Meteorological Organization warning of intensified global ...

The planet has always changed. Ice ages came and went, oceans rose and fell, climates shifted over geological timescales. That's the story we've told ourselves for comfort, and it's technically true.

An extraordinary deluge dumped roughly four months' worth of rain in only 12 hours, reflecting a growing Midwest climate ...

A recent study by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) reveals a looming climate crisis: the world could face heightened risks of "precipitation whiplashes"—violent swings ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the return of La Niña on Thursday, marking the start of an expected period of global cooling that nonetheless carried ominous signs about ...

Roughly 95% of Colorado is experiencing some level of drought, with about one-third of the state classified in the two most severe categories.