Most places on Earth have seasons because our planet is on a tilt as it orbits the sun. But our star also has its own version ...

Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and even Earth’s orbit around the ...

"These differences in timing can have surprising ecological, evolutionary and even economic consequences." Our current ...

A team of U.K. researchers are planning to melt some of the oldest ice on Earth in an ambitious bid to reconstruct up to 1.5 million years of our planet’s climate history. In doing so, they could also ...

When it comes to Earth’s climate system, water is often at the center of the story — whether it’s too much, too little or ...