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 ...

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

Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily and briefly into the spotlight of a video camera, researcher Alan Jamieson ...

Scientists have expressed growing concern over a major Atlantic current that could collapse and send northern Europe into the ...

Members of Congress who attended the Munich Security Conference expressed confidence they patched the wounds President Trump’s threats to ...

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

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

Climate change is rapidly freshening one of Earth’s saltiest ocean regions in the Southern Indian Ocean, potentially disrupting circulation.

Florida has endured a winter few could have predicted. Since early November, the state has endured at least three rounds of ...

Scientists first outlined the prospect of a Hothouse Earth in 2018, warning that cascading tipping points could lock the ...

As Russia displays its military might in the Arctic region, the Western alliance is beginning a mission to increase its ...

Scientists say that multiple Earth system components appear closer to destabilization than previously believed, putting the planet in increased danger of following a "hothouse" path driven by feedback ...