After three consecutive years of La Niña, spring 2023 saw the return of El Niño—a natural climate phenomenon characterized by the presence of warmer than normal sea surface temperatures (and higher sea levels) in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.

Researchers from Germany and Peru jointly develop new adaptation strategies to the impacts of climate change on the Humboldt upwelling area off the Peruvian coast.

Mother Nature’s messengers need consideration year-round. Here’s what you can do to give them a helping hand.

As sunlight and warmth increase in the spring and summer, the North Sea starts to gain swirls and tendrils of color. 

Smoke particulates from wildfires could lead to between 4,000 and 9,000 premature deaths and cost $36 to $82 billion per year in the United States, according to new research by Cornell, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) and the University of Houston.

The early blooms of some of Washington D.C.’s iconic cherry blossoms this year set off a flurry of questions: Were trees communicating sensitivity to climate change?

Research explores how a warming world could impact ecosystems and derail the development of new species.

Using satellite data from more than 7,000 global reservoirs, Texas A&M researchers found that while total storage capacity has increased, the filling rate is lower than expected.

To conserve precious and fragile biodiversity hotspots, a crucial step is knowing how the fruit eaters are doing. 

In the high altitudes of the European Eastern Alps, the number of detected lightning strikes has doubled in the course of the last 40 years.