A new study has found that 160 million small wetland patches release nearly one-quarter of methane emissions from wetlands ...

Atmospheric dust plays a dual role in Earth's climate: it reflects some sunlight back into space while also absorbing and retaining the planet's heat like an insulating blanket. But while dust likely ...

Airborne desert dust is doing more than just dirtying windshields, according to new work from UCLA researchers. Their study ...

Scientific models have predicted that climate change will drive oceans in the Northern Hemisphere to warm faster than oceans ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A home is submerged by Kentucky River flooding. A home along Paul Sawyier Drive in Frankfort is submerged by Kentucky River ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Over the past two months, the Trump administration has taken steps to eliminate regulations addressing climate change, pull back funding for climate ...

New research suggests the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could weaken by 43% to 59% by 2100, a far sharper decline than earlier models predicted. The AMOC, a key ocean current ...

Authors: Dr. Benjamin W. Johnson, Earth, atmosphere and climate (EAC) Dr. Jacqueline Reber, EAC Dr. Alan Wanamaker, EAC Dr.