Climate change is not only warming the planet and disrupting rainfall, it is also quietly rewiring the way nitrogen moves ...

Associated Press — Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation that can wreak havoc on people and the ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict ...

Scientists attribute these extreme weather swings to climate change, warning of intensifying "hydroclimate whiplash" patterns ...

Professor Isabel Montañez, a chancellor’s leadership professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, joined UC Davis in 1998.(Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Our planet’s history is one of ...

The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study conducted by University of Maryland researchers. This represents roughly an area the size of South Dakota being ...

Comparison of records over the past 400,000 years. (A) Marine benthic foraminifera δ¹⁸O (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005); (B) Loess magnetic susceptibility (Sun et al., 2021); (C) Microcodium δ¹⁸O record ...

Mars may be around 140 million miles away from Earth, but the red planet is influencing our deep oceans by helping drive “giant whirlpools,” according to new research. Scientists analyzed sediments, ...