Atmospheric rivers are long filaments of moisture that curve poleward. Several are visible in this satellite image. Bin Guan, NASA/JPL-Caltech and UCLA Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of ...

Fukuoka, Japan—The interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere plays a vital role in shaping the Earth’s climate. Changing sea surface temperatures can heat or cool the atmosphere, and changes ...

BEIJING — Just because Earth is warming to extreme highs doesn’t mean freezing temperatures will disappear. In 2023, Earth ...

Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are known to raise temperatures in Earth's atmosphere. But slow feedback processes, ...

One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year — El Niño — is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Niña, is on the way. Whether that’s a relief or not depends ...

Earth's tropical regions drive some of the most powerful weather and climate variability globally. Among these, the ...

A new research reveals that the anomalous dipole pattern of sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic affects the summer precipitation on the northern slope of the Tibetan Plateau through ...

New research suggests that a rapidly warming Arctic is driving long-lasting summer extremes, like this month’s sweltering temperatures. Temperatures are finally falling in the eastern U.S. as a ...

A barrage of intense, wild swings in climate conditions may have fueled the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history. A re-creation of how ancient sea surface temperatures, ocean and atmosphere ...