In a new University of Colorado Boulder-led study published July 30 in Nature, scientists revealed that even a modest slowdown of a major Atlantic Ocean current could dry out rainforests, threaten ...

Australia is a land of extremes. At this time of year, you can be baking in the north and shivering in the south. Nowhere is ...

Mineral cave deposits from northern Siberia show that the region was permafrost free during the late Miocene period, when ...

The most intense warming, which occurred in the North Atlantic, tropical Pacific, South Pacific and North Pacific, accounted ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which includes the Gulf Stream, plays a key stabilizing role in ...

Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...

To find out how fast the Earth is spinning at all, you need to find a reference frame in which, ideally, nothing is moving. Everything in space moves relative to everything else, but the farther we ...

Two tropical storms have led to deadly inland flooding in the United States already this season, underscoring how dangerous water can be.

Over 170 people, including dozens of children, have died in heavy monsoon rainfall and flooding in Pakistan in recent days.

Earth will complete a rotation 1.33 milliseconds earlier than usual on Tuesday, August 5. That makes it one of the shortest ...