The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice in recent years has created a fundamental new change in the atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere that has sped up sea ice loss and is affecting fall ...

Jennifer Francis is a research professor at Rutgers University. Damage from extreme weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest-ever bills for the U.S. Most of these events involved conditions ...

This study is led by Dr. Sha Yingying, Dr. Shi Zhengguo, and their colleagues from the State Key Laboratory of Loess Science at the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The ...

Researchers are increasingly examining patterns and drivers of postfire forest recovery amid growing concern that climate change and intensifying fires will trigger ecosystem transformations.

Damage from extreme weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest-ever bills for the U.S. Most of these events involved conditions that align intuitively with global warming: heat records, drought, ...