The escalating costs of extreme weather and natural catastrophes highlight an urgent need for action from governments, ...

The large-scale Pacific Ocean climate patterns that help steer weather patterns around the globe are shifting yet again.

WMO warns of rising El Niño risks as La Niña weakens, potentially reshaping global weather patterns and climate impacts.

A new study finds ocean cycles disrupt synchronized global drought, reducing the risk of simultaneous crop failures worldwide ...

Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming. Existing climate models have failed to capture this ...

When it comes to distinguishing between weather and climate, weather generally covers short and specific timeframes and locations, while climate focuses on trends and statistical ups and downs over ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina unleashed a levee-busting catastrophe on New Orleans that woke ...

The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences. The fate of the ...