Recently, Earth’s rotation has been speeding up, shortening days by milliseconds. While this change is minor, scientists are ...

"These differences in timing can have surprising ecological, evolutionary and even economic consequences." Our current ...

These phenomena are erratic. They interact at every scale and manifest as weather, from clear sunny days to blustery ...

A new study led by the U.S. Forest Service, with Chapman University as a key senior collaborator, published in Nature ...

"While the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a key driver of global climate patterns, it is not the only factor shaping ...

The failure of the Gulf of Panama’s seasonal upwelling system has left scientists wondering what happens next.

Billions upon billions of soot particles enter Earth's atmosphere each second, totaling about 5.8 million metric tons a ...

A sudden halt to Earth's rotation, though improbable, would trigger catastrophic events. Inertia would cause widespread ...

Researchers studying the health of glaciers say that one in Tajikistan likely reached its tipping point in 2018.