For years, public debate has treated climate change as a single number on a thermometer, rising in tiny fractions of a degree ...

Nearly 2 billion people could face wild disruptions in water availability if the planet continues to warm — and the change could be irreversible, new research suggests. The new study, published May 14 ...

New research by NOAA and a visiting scientist from India shows that warming of the Indo-Pacific Ocean is altering rainfall patterns from the tropics to the United States, contributing to declines in ...

Pine rings record a sharp rise in rainfall intensity and volatility, showing modern extremes exceed patterns seen over the past 500 years.

Human activities are increasingly posing a serious threat to wildlife and the ecological integrity of the Mole National Park, ...

Climate change is quietly rearranging the Amazon and Andes—winners and losers are emerging, and the Northern Andes may hold ...

Whiplash. Whack. Jolt. Loosely speaking, the relatively new phrase climate whiplash* refers to an event of rapid, sudden, and most often extreme swings between opposing weather conditions within a ...