About a year ago, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the extratropical cyclones that are the biggest drivers of winter weather in the Great Lakes region are warming and trending ...

Across the coldest places on Earth, something quiet but powerful is happening beneath your feet and under the ice. As ...

The planet has always changed. Ice ages came and went, oceans rose and fell, climates shifted over geological timescales.

Climate change makes nitrous oxide disappear faster, creating new uncertainty for future climate and ozone predictions.

A warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The “wobble” can disrupt the jet stream, ...

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for nearly all observed global surface warming—slightly ...

A team of researchers say that human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that ...

This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing region. From the Poconos to the Jersey Shore to the mouth of the Delaware Bay, what do you want to ...

Senior figures in the UK government were aware of these discussions by the late 1960s, while the very first environment white paper, in May 1970, mentions carbon dioxide build-up as a possible problem ...