By the time an El Niño is declared, it means Earth's atmosphere is already beginning to respond.

El Niño is officially here—and the whole planet is likely to feel the brunt of it in the coming months. The weather pattern ...

With machine learning and a high-resolution imaging robot, scientists measured and mapped the extent of Earth’s carbon ...

Heat waves across Europe and South Asia have dominated the news recently. But these events are really a surface expression of ...

Despite its incredible diversity, there is a universal tie between all life on Earth, regardless of species. This unifying ...

An El Niño event has officially started, say US scientists, raising fears of extreme weather and higher temperatures.

A river of molten iron, more than 2,000 kilometers below the surface, appears to have pulled off something Earth scientists did not expect. Around 2010, a broad patch of fluid in the outer core ...

An emerging field of research that can measure how much climate change has worsened individual disasters is under attack by ...

Earth is divided into two halves: the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Both reflect equal amounts of sunlight (albedo) even ...

The story of how Earth became a habitable planet is often told through collisions, volcanoes and oceans. Less attention is ...

Scientists have identified a hidden deep-Earth pattern that may reveal where rare earth deposits form. The study links valuable rare earth-rich rocks to the thick ancient “roots” beneath Earth’s ...

Scientists have discovered a colossal hidden structure beneath Antarctica that could reshape our understanding of the ...