Understanding how Earth's climate has naturally fluctuated during the Holocene—the current geological epoch spanning the last ...

Penguin poop provides ammonia for cloud formation in coastal Antarctica, potentially helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change in the region.

Researchers look to extremes in the past to study how the system reacts to imbalances. They detail an overlooked mechanism for how the ocean can help stabilize massive releases of carbon into the ...

Jonathan Shanklin, a meteorologist and an emeritus fellow for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), helped discover the hole in the ozone layer in 1985 along with Joe Farman and Brian G. Gardiner.

How do organisms adapt to climate change? A new study reveals the complex interplay between genetic diversity and temperature ...

As the cofounder and leader of the World Weather Attribution initiative, climate scientist Friederike Otto is painfully aware ...

Climate shocks trigger emotional distress, which limits long-term thinking and can lead to environmentally harmful choices.

However, the increasing occurrence and severity of some types of extreme weather events, due in part to human-caused climate change, is also amplifying some of these events and making them more ...

The historic rain and flooding in parts of Arkansas, Kentucky and other states caused by intense April thunderstorms was likelier and also more intense because of climate change. That’s ...

Climate change is worsening malnutrition in Asia, with young children bearing the brunt of increasingly fragile health and food systems, said the United Nations children’s agency’s regional ...

Wildfires driven by climate change contribute to as many as thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars in economic costs from wildfire smoke in the United States, according to a new study.