El Niños happen when water in the tropical Pacific heats up, changing weather patterns all around the world. The hotter the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research links Earth’s orbital wobble to 4,000–5,000-year climate swings during a hot, ice-free Cretaceous period. (CREDIT: ...

Coral reefs have long been celebrated as biodiversity hotspots—but new research shows they have also played a much deeper role: conducting the rhythm of Earth's carbon and climate cycles for more than ...

Small but mighty, the red planet — our celestial neighbor — has made Earth’s climate what it is today. Mars’ gravitational pull serves as a stabilizing force for our home’s orbit, tilt and position ...

When it comes to global warming and climate change, we often hear news stories about tipping points where Earth's systems shift into a new and dangerous state. One such may have been reached in the ...

How does climate change influence the planet’s nitrogen cycle? This is what a recent study published in Nitrogen Cycling hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated climate change’s impact ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that the Earth’s climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age – known as Snowball Earth. During ...

The climate has always changed. Solar cycles, ocean oscillations such as El Niño and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, ...