From the rice paddies of South Asia to the wheat fields of northern China, summer monsoon rains sustain the livelihoods of ...

There are increasing indications El Niño is likely to form and strengthen into potentially a significant event during the next several months, throwing weather patterns worldwide out of whack and ...

The climate record holds some of its best warnings in stone, soil, and leaves. In a new study, scientists from the University of Utah and the Colorado School of Mines looked back to one of Earth’s ...

Scientists have long focused on rising temperatures to understand how climate change is reshaping the natural world. But ...

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 ...

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 shows storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rainfall, revealing a major shift in one of Earth’s most important climate systems. Macquarie Island sits in the remote Southern ...

Global temperatures have taken an unexpected sharp climb in recent years, prompting scientists to reconsider how some atmospheric patterns are calculated. NOAA announced earlier this month that it ...

Climate disasters that kill large numbers of people have never been short, single events. They are almost always ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The El Niño Southern Oscillation, also known as ENSO is one of the indices we use to help forecast the weather pattern months down the line. ENSO is a climate pattern of shifts in ...