Heat-related deaths now make up more than 3% of mortalities in 26 countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East. In ...

New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could ...

Seven of nine planetary boundaries have been breached. Climate change, biosphere collapse, freshwater depletion and, for the ...

A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For many years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink for climate change: A large part of the heat generated by human use ...

Ocean currents driven by wind, water density, tides, ocean floor features, or the Coriolis effect, have an important role on climate regulation and marine ecology. In turn, increasing water surface ...

In this first glimpse of the "Sea Camp" series from NPR's Short Wave podcast, hear how climate change will significantly shift three-quarters of the ocean's surface currents by the end of the century.

More than a dozen of the world’s leading ocean science, philanthropic, and stakeholder organizations—led by the Woods Hole ...

Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are using sound to detect the effects of climate change by listening to underwater sounds in the ocean, according to a recently published paper.

This time last year, Dean Grubbs and his colleagues were celebrating a conservation success story. The star was the smalltooth sawfish, a type of large ray with a saw-like snout trimmed with tiny ...

Explore U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, including total costs, trends, and impacts.