Slowing human-caused climate change requires decisive action, but the slow upward creep of global temperatures contributes to apathy among people who don't experience regular climate-driven disasters, ...

There is a saying that has been going through my mind of late: "May you live in interesting times." Its origin is vague but many attribute it to a translation of a Chinese curse. Indeed, while the ...

A new study finds that presenting the same continuous climate data, such as incremental changes in temperature, in binary form -- such as whether a lake did or did not freeze in the winter -- ...

Adaptation tipping point: New research finds species can suddenly lose adaptive capacity even under gradual environmental change, leading to range collapse or population fragmentation. Key influencing ...

While there are growing signs of a change as we approach Christmas Day, the days immediately ahead remain dominated by unsettled Atlantic conditions. Low pressure systems continue to drive weather ...

The Swiss geophysicist Hans Oeschger, one of the first researchers to lay eyes on the polar ice profile, recognized what the newly deduced pattern of natural climate behavior was likely to mean to the ...