Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California. States are seeking extensive financial ...

El Niño events are essentially ocean anomalies, and their magnitude is measured by looking at a specific rectangular zone of ...

We treat the effects of climate change as emergencies: this is wrong. Tackling heatwaves, floods and droughts requires ...

Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm was thriving in Baltimore’s Greenspring neighborhood when researchers from Morgan State University proposed establishing a weather station in its fields. Farm ...

In a new working paper, Yale SOM’s Kelly Shue and Samuel Hartzmark of Boston College model how the use of reflective aerosols ...

Long before dark sunspots appear on the sun's surface, a new active region—where powerful solar eruptions can originate—begins showing subtle signs of its formation. Now, researchers say a new ...

A new study suggests climate models may be overestimating how much carbon forests will absorb in a warming world, raising the possibility that global temperatures could rise even more than current ...

Imagine you wake up one morning and look out your window. You see a sky of red, hear a ferocious blast of wind and watch as tree branches creak and crack. No, the apocalypse has not descended on your ...

Urban heat islands pose a growing global health threat. But in tropical cities, the peril is surging. Already burdened by hot-humid equatorial weather, global warming, intense poverty, rapid ...

Around 56 million years ago, a sharp rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere led to severe global warming that transformed the planet’s surface. A detailed reconstruction of an ancient ecosystem ...

You may have heard reports of fish die-offs or seen photos of hauntingly bleached coral. Those are just two signs a marine heatwave has swept through the sea. Marine heatwaves happen when the ocean ...

The recurring climate phenomenon is expected to peak later this year, but it is already causing dry spells and crop failures on three continents.