When militia attacks disrupted shipping lanes in the Red Sea, few imagined the ripple effects would reach the clouds over the ...

Researchers found Antarctic melt only delays - never prevents - the AMOC’s long decline, with major impacts on weather, seas, ...

The air around you isn't just empty space waiting to be filled. It's a dynamic, ever-shifting system that dictates whether ...

Time series of summer hot days in Europe derived from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) and E-OBS datasets. view more .

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an ocean current system that transports heat from the tropics to the ...

A group of researchers has been working to demonstrate that rainfall from India's summer monsoon can set off a powerful atmospheric chain reaction. Heat released by the rain can shift global ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

High above our heads and unseen to the naked eye, rivers of water vapor flow through the atmosphere. These "atmospheric rivers" are crucial to the global water cycle. Astonishingly, they have the ...

Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

Three decades ago, China abducted the Panchen Lama — then a six-year-old boy — shortly after his recognition by the Dalai Lama, and installed a regime-picked imposter in his place. That abduction, one ...