Floods and landslides triggered by the storms have killed more than 1,600 people, with hundreds more still missing.

Westerly wind bursts can trigger the beginning of a shift from La Niña to El Niño, a change that can have big consequences ...

In this article, Carbon Brief explores four different factors that have been proposed for the exceptional warmth seen in recent years ...

While Antarctic meltwater drives rising sea levels, models show it also delays greenhouse gas-induced warming. That’s because ...

What warmer oceans do change, however, is the amount of energy available to any storm that does manage to form. When the ocean is warmer, cyclones have more fuel and evaporation increases, loading the ...

Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures ...

Scientists say the world’s oceans are warming far more quickly than previously thought, a finding with dire implications for climate change because almost all the excess heat absorbed by the planet ...

Nadir Jeevanjee works for NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which is discussed in this article. The views expressed herein are in no sense official positions of the Geophysical Fluid ...

Oceans help sustain life on Earth, but the tipping point is near, experts said. Oceans do so much to sustain life on Earth, including bearing the brunt of global temperatures that have been steadily ...

The warming has lead to an increase in rain and rising sea levels. Ocean temperatures are increasing faster than scientists previously thought, according to new research. An analysis published in the ...