The trade winds are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in Earth's equatorial region, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern ...

Climate science, for all its remarkable progress, still has some very unnerving blank spots. The planet is behaving in ways that even the most sophisticated models struggle to explain. From the deep ...

The Pacific Ocean is a giant climate cauldron, with a powerful heat engine that affects storms, fisheries and rainfall ...

Climate change is making rainfall harder to predict, as shifting wind patterns challenge climate models and increase ...

It is a periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, which typically lasts between ...

Scientists now believe that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could slow much sooner than expected. We will ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich reveals that a key part of the climate system—the large-scale wind ...

It’s no secret our planet is heating up. And here’s the evidence: we’ve just experienced the 11 hottest years on record, with 2025 being the second or third warmest in global history. The annual State ...

The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences. The fate of the ...