Han’s team estimates that the area covered by salty seawater in this Southern Indian Ocean region has shrunk by about 30% over the past 60 years. They describe it as the fastest freshening seen ...

A new study finds that Arctic ringed seals face a double threat from climate change and long-lasting pollutants.

Fast-flowing jetstream air currents have shifted further southwards, dragging rain-bearing weather away from Australia.

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

Struggling kelp forests like those along the California coast show why 'out of sight, out of mind' is not good climate change ...

Ocean Heat Content Reaching Record Levels Let's be honest, the oceans are acting like a sponge for our planet's fever. More than nine-tenths of the warming that has happened on Earth over the past 50 ...

An hour before dawn, in a nameless rock pile in the world’s largest hot desert, Djimet Guemona clambered up a narrow gully. The route was hemmed by high walls, where uncountable centuries of ...

Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being relatively warm and stable to cold and chaotic, as continental ice sheets ...

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.