Plant wax preserved in lake sediments reveals what the Earth's climate and rainfall were like 240,000 years ago.

As global temperatures rise, scientists are uncovering more information about how the overheating of our planet is making extreme weather events worse — especially heavy rainfall. However, scientists ...

Volcanoes can have a major impact on rainfall around the world, according to a recent study by Princeton University. New research published in Nature Geoscience shows that large volcanic eruptions can ...

Artificial intelligence is beginning to transform climate science, not just by improving forecasts, but by helping ...

First predicted to form last summer, climate troublemaker La Niña has developed at last, federal climate scientists announced Thursday morning. However, the pattern is a weak one, and isn't supposed ...

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Dengue fever is no longer just a disease of the monsoon season. Doctors are seeing that the extreme heat is making conditions for transmitting dengue and its carriers, mosquitoes, the Aedes aegypti, ...

Scientists are still untangling the complex relationship between El Niño and human-driven warming, but their confluence has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First predicted to form last summer, climate troublemaker La Niña has developed at last, federal climate scientists announced ...