Scientists say recent extreme snowstorms are consistent with weather patterns shifting due to climate change. A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which can lead to more intense precipitation, ...

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

Species are showing how flexible they are in adapting to climate change, believes earth scientist Raghu Murtugudde ...

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Do we really know what climate change will do to our planet? Deniers think it’s all a big hoax. They are quick to point to all that snow from the storm that buried the Northeast and what about the ...

A rare deep-field Antarctic flight campaign has uncovered unexpected aerosol concentrations over the continent’s interior.

This shift, researchers say, marks a climatic tipping point—and it may have shaped the evolution of our species. “Things were ...

In the Antarctic Peninsula, precipitation is increasingly falling as rain rather than snow, with consequences for glaciers, ...

A beaver moved into my mother's small pond this fall and set to work on improvements. By the time the ice sealed the pond's surface, this beaver had a fine ...

By Sean Mowbray International shipping is on the rise in the Arctic region now that climate change regularly opens up ...

New research shows melting Arctic sea ice could be reshaping India’s monsoon, shifting heavier August and September rains westward.