With Lake Oroville brimming beyond average, California's water year begins with the threat of extreme weather on its way.

Over the past 40 years, atmospheric rivers carrying moisture from the tropics have migrated between 6 and 10 degrees closer ...

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its ...

The carbon cycle is a natural process that plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system. However, human activities have ...

Today’s climate change pales in comparison with what happened as Earth gave birth to its oxygen-containing atmosphere billions of years ago. By analyzing clues contained in rocks, scientists at the ...

In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest loss is reshaping the region’s atmospheric water cycle. As the Amazon ...

Dew formation is a natural process in which water vapour condenses on cool surfaces, typically during clear, calm nights when radiative cooling lowers surface temperatures below the dew point. This ...

Solar activity is expected to strengthen in 2024, which could activate more frequent displays of the aurora borealis, or the northern lights, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the periodic “breathing” of Earth’s upper atmosphere that has long puzzled scientists is due in part to cyclic solar wind disturbances, a finding ...

Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now?

Caltech researchers have developed a new simulation of the hydrological cycle on Jupiter, modeling how water vapor condenses ...