Climate variability encompasses natural fluctuations in temperature, precipitation and atmospheric circulation across timescales ranging from seasons to centuries. Key drivers include ocean–atmosphere ...

Monsoon systems represent one of the most prominent modes of seasonal climate variability, characterised by a pronounced reversal of prevailing winds and associated precipitation changes. These ...

Environmental scientists are increasingly using enormous artificial intelligence models to make predictions about changes in weather and climate, but a new study by MIT researchers shows that bigger ...

Changes in rainfall within global monsoon regions affect the livelihoods of billions. For years, climate models have suggested that the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on monsoons would ...

As a potentially historic El Niño builds in the Pacific, evidence suggests that climate change is ratcheting up the intensity ...

Dryland ecosystems cover 40% of the Earth's land surface and support more than 2 billion people. According to a new study ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

One of the most pervasive misunderstandings of climate — even among some who publish on climate — is the belief that any long-term trend in a measured climate variable indicates a change in climate, ...

Coral skeletons reveal El Niño is stronger than at any point in 1,000 years. Scientists say human-caused climate change is the reason.