La Niña will soon sputter. Unusually warm water building in the western Pacific Ocean raises the stakes for what comes next.

After a short absence, climate troublemaker La Niña is back, and forecasters say it could have a big impact on the winter weather outlook. La Niña is a part of a natural climate cycle officially known ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The North Atlantic Ocean has been running a fever for months, with surface temperatures at or near record highs. But ...

Inter-tropical Convergence Zone is a low-pressure belt near the equator where trade winds from the Northern and Southern ...

The North Atlantic Ocean has been running a fever for months, with surface temperatures at or near record highs. However, cooling along the equator in both the Atlantic and eastern Pacific may finally ...

Federal scientists from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) confirmed that the La Niña weather pattern, which started in ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but after an unusual influx of rain, the color can be seen from space creeping into parts of one of the driest places in the world. Satellites recently ...