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 ...

Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing body of research suggests that in the tropics, it is also a product of ...

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

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

Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s ...

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 ...

Roughly 42,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field weakened dramatically during the Laschamps geomagnetic excursion, allowing more cosmic radiation to reach the atmosphere. In a peer‑reviewed study of ...

A study has found that salinity levels in parts of the southern Indian Ocean have declined by nearly 30% over the past 60 years.

Understanding Climate Tipping Points Defining Earth’s Critical Thresholds So, what exactly are these "tipping points" everyone’s talking ...