Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the cycle's beginning, the sun has fewer sunspots. Their number increases as ...

Beijing is conducting research projects in the Arctic, and is investing in international natural gas production facilities ...

In comparison, 51 to 66 percent of land in North America is also projected to shift to new climate classifications. On a global scale, 38 to 48 percent of the Earth’s land area could experience ...

A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...

That’s why it took scientists by surprise when dozens of lightning strikes were detected within 300 nautical miles of the North Pole this past weekend. In fact, it was so unusual that it was ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

A new report quantifies the role climate change has had in recent intense heat. The dangerous heat waves currently plaguing North America and Europe would be "virtually impossible" without ...

The role of climate change is just one of the complicated and mysterious factors that make it a challenge to predict what the spinning gyre nearly 30 miles above the Arctic means for our winters.

The city of North Pole is reaching out to families of officers, firefighters, emergency responders, public servants and military servicemembers who died while performing official duties to honor ...

Climate Central analysis shows that human-caused climate change made this extreme heat up to five times more likely. Note: This event may continue beyond June 16th.