Nitrogen is an important component of the global environment, affecting agriculture, climate, human health, and ecosystems.

A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions ...

Approximately 700,000 years ago, a 'warm ice age' permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. During this exceptionally warm and moist period, the polar glaciers greatly expanded. A research team ...

Scientists predict that global warming could make El Niño far more powerful and consistent than before.

Published in Nature Communications, the international research team found that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation could ...

Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around for a long time. A really, really long time. A new study says the dance between El Niño and its counterpart, La Niña, was present on our ...

Industries and individuals around the world burned record amounts of oil, gas and coal last year, releasing more greenhouse ...

This cold spring highlights another climate cycle that has nothing to do with CO2. The cycle that link the two coldest springs is the 60-year Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Both of these cold springs ...

At the end of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica, a hypersaline brine known as “Blood Falls” flows onto the surface. The red color is from iron oxide. Mineral deposits formed in the past from such fluids ...

A graph featured in a Jan. 26 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) appears to show a pattern in historical global temperatures. “Earth is on a 100,000 year Time/Temp clock, and we’re right on ...

Favorable chemistry and episodes with thin films of liquid water during ongoing, long-term climate cycles may sometimes make the area where NASA’s Phoenix Mars mission landed last year a favorable ...