You may have heard that Earth’s magnetic poles can wander away from the planet’s true North and South Poles. But these geographic points are also mobile. In fact, they seem to have gone on four big ...

Janet Cole told herself she didn’t need to take any more pictures of trees at The Morton Arboretum. She had more than enough. But an amur corktree standing alone with a mass of vibrant leaves called ...

Earth's oceans are undergoing a dramatic visual shift, as satellite data reveals that a powerful " Super El Niño " weather pattern is turning green ocean waters a starker, deeper blue. The visual ...

The El Nino-Southern Oscillation, to use its full name, is a natural phenomenon in which the upwelling of water causes warmer ...

A hot, dry summer could be good news for Gisborne farmers and winemakers, but El Niño is bringing risks that could prove ...

Stronger westerly winds and below-average rainfall will present challenges on the East Coast but there are some potential ...

The blustery, frost weekend reminded us that winter is inching closer, even as we look forward to a beautiful week for a trip ...

Mud from a fjord shows an Atlantic air pattern brought wetter, colder spells to southern Greenland, a clue to how its ice may ...

Satellites have provided an uninterrupted record of Arctic sea ice growth and retreat since late 1978, allowing researchers ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that a turbulent world 20 light-years away has a surprisingly orderly weather ...

Webb’s medium-resolution spectrograph supplied the missing detail by separating the light into wavelengths associated with ...

A new study shows how “space waves" form along Earth’s magnetic shield and could help scientists better understand which regions — including high-latitude areas such as Alaska and the northern U.S. — ...