Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

La Niña has a major influence on winter weather in the U.S., but its effects vary drastically by region. What will we see?

Coral reefs have long been celebrated as biodiversity hotspots—but new research shows they have also played a much deeper ...

Sinkholes are not just costly inconveniences, they are growing threat to commercial activities, livelihood and property and are increasing in frequency due to climate change.

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Université Grenoble Alpes have found that the Earth system flips between two ...

With bipartisanship ended, farmers will now face "the rollercoaster experience" of changing targets every political cycle, a ...

Federal scientists from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) confirmed that the La Niña weather pattern, which started in ...

Sinikka Lennartz, a junior professor of biogeochemical ocean modelling at the University of Oldenburg in northern Germany, has won several prestigious awards this year. She specialises in the marine ...