Earth Day draws attention to climate change, but it's also been a fascinating day in weather history, with everything from ...

Warming ocean water also affects temperatures on ... the extraordinary impacts the planet has witnessed—including extreme weather, heat waves, wildfires, coral bleaching and ecosystem ...

Atmospheric instability has two components: rising air and wind shear, which is created as wind speed changes with height.

The ocean may have removed much less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than expected in 2023, mainly due to high ocean temperatures. If climate change continues to rapidly weaken the planet’s ...

While this storm remained over the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean, it was a historic oddity. Prior to Ana, only one other storm was known to have formed in the Atlantic Basin in April – a ...

More than a foot of rain fell in several areas. As a climate scientist who studies the water cycle, I often get questions about how extreme storms like these form and what climate change has to do ...