The southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to ...

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial ...

Ice-sheet melt temporarily intensified Southern Ocean stratification between ice ages and warmer interglacial periods, thus ...

The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...

Rare blizzard conditions hit the Outer Banks last month and back-to-back winter storms left ice on the ground for days in ...

The latest climate forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that an El Niño climate pattern is on track to arrive midway through hurricane season — a pattern that ...

Australia’s insurance industry is monitoring the potential return of El Niño conditions later this year, as climate ...

What are the odds of a storm actually forming? The chance that a storm forms along the East Coast this weekend is high. The data last few days from the majority of our ...

In ordinary circumstances coral reefs are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, built slowly by animals that appear to be plants. Each coral polyp houses microscopic algae that convert ...

A look at what we know and don't yet know about how climate change could affect the paths of these storms — and the all-important question of how often they'll make landfall.