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Caption: An artist's depiction with cutaway section of the two giant donuts of radiation, called the Van Allen Belts, that surround Earth. Credit:...

New research by LLNL scientists shows that satellite measurements of the temperature of the troposphere (the lowest region of the atmosphere) may have...

LLNL Marine stratocumulus clouds along the California and Baja California coastlines, as revealed by a NASA satellite. These and other low-level clouds are widespread over the global oceans. LLNL researchers have found that global warming causes low clouds over the oceans to decrease, leading to further warming. Image courtesy of NASA. A new analysis of satellite cloud observations finds that global warming causes low-level clouds over the oceans to decrease, leading to further warming. The wor...

Geoscientists have uncovered surprising results that reveal a complex history of ancient permafrost thaw—with implications for understanding the effects...

Date Time Researchers find climate change impacts plankton – a key marine food source A key type of zooplankton’s inability to adapt to climate change could have adverse implications for marine food chains across the world if a severe global warming event were to occur, researchers at Oxford University have found. Their study investigated how planktonic foraminifera adapted to changing climatic conditions over the last 700,000 years, or seven global ice ages – with results demonstrating t...

Chinese Academy of Sciences El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures (SSTs) over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean. It may lead to extreme weather events across the globe due to its ability to change global atmospheric circulation. Thus, determining how ENSO responds to greenhouse warming is crucial in climate science. However, quantifying and understanding ENSO-related changes in a warmer climate remains challenging due to t...

Nick Dolding / Getty Images A climate model can now reliably predict the strength of the Asian summer monsoon – and tropical cyclone activity associated with it – more than one year ahead of time, which could enable government agencies to make preparations for damaging weather events. Yuhei Takaya at the Japan Meteorological Agency and his colleagues have developed a climate prediction system that takes into account both historical and up-to-date meteorological measurements to simulate atmo...

Climate change influences the Earth's water balance: Depending on region and season, it can lead to more floods or droughts and also have an impact on...

In the next decade to century, our ability to predict sea level change is limited by our lack of understanding of critical processes at the boundary...

River flow has changed significantly worldwide in recent decades. An international research team led by ETH Zurich has now demonstrated that it is...