A research team has used changing patterns of salt in the ocean to estimate that between 1970 and 2014, at least two times more freshwater shifted from the equator to the poles than our climate models ...

The Ocean's Global Heat Distribution System One of the most important functions of the ocean is to move heat around the ...

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Climate change is causing widespread global impacts, but now scientists are finding that it's altering the very planet itself. Earth's rotation is slowing down, extending the length of a day ever so ...

Changing ocean hues could bring some environmental blues, according to a new study from researchers at Duke and Georgia Tech. Using satellite data collected from 2003 to ’22, the researchers looked ...

New research reveals a chain of environmental disasters. These took place in what is today's South Africa, during an ancient time period called the Early-Middle Devonian. The crises led to the ...

The geographic North Pole is the center of the Northern Hemisphere and the northernmost point on Earth. It stands at a full 90 degrees latitude from the equator—hence the “90° N” sign tourists love to ...

A team of scientists from the University of British Columbia, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Miami published a new study in Ecology Letters showing how rising ...

The first breath of spring can make us feel that all is right with the world. But when it comes as eerily warm temperatures in the 80s in February amid weather whiplash doled out by our overheated ...

Africa contributes less than 3% of the world’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions but the continent will be one of the most impacted by the adverse effects of climate change. Some explanations ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Climate change is remapping where humans can exist on the ...