Climate adaptation should become an integrated part of aid efforts, as the cost of conflict and global warming collide, ...

For decades, a vast ring of sea ice around Antarctica acted as a planetary cooling system, reflecting sunlight back into ...

A huge chunk of Antarctic ice the size of Britain threatens to detach from the frozen continent - leaving some countries at ...

Some of Earth's largest climate systems may collapse not with a bang, but with a whimper. Surprisingly, experiments with magnets are helping us understand how. We now widely accept that greenhouse ...

A new study analyzing chemical traces in the growth rings of clam shells reinforces growing concerns about the stability of a key North Atlantic Ocean current that helps keep the global climate ...

Environmental phenomena and their consequences can disrupt social structures and destabilize political systems. An interdisciplinary research team demonstrated this using the example of the late Tang ...