Climate can change fast, even when the planet looks stable. Earth has flipped into new patterns within decades in the past.

Floods and droughts across the globe are moving in sync, and a powerful Pacific climate cycle is pulling the strings.

A pull in the right direction ...

Floods, droughts and heat waves continue to dominate headlines around the world and in Australia.

New simulations show red planet affects Milankovitch cycles that shape how solar energy is distributed on Earth over millions ...

The El Niño Southern Oscillation drives major weather patterns across the globe. Disrupting it could have intense and far-reaching ramifications. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — With CO2 emissions ...

How does climate change influence the planet’s nitrogen cycle? This is what a recent study published in Nitrogen Cycling hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated climate change’s impact ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Comparison of records over the past 400,000 years. (A) Marine benthic foraminifera δ¹⁸O (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005); (B) Loess magnetic susceptibility (Sun et al., 2021); (C) Microcodium δ¹⁸O record ...

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed light on how human-generated emissions will shape our planet’s future. Reading ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's orbit and axial tilt. These variations, known as Milankovitch cycles, ...