New research shows how changing rainfall speeds up soil carbon loss and how biochar helps soil cope with stress.

As global temperatures rise, scientists are uncovering more information about how the overheating of our planet is making extreme weather events worse — especially heavy rainfall. However, scientists ...

After analyzing 40 years of tree records across the Andes and Amazon, researchers found that climate change is reshaping ...

One of the standout findings from the Paleogene record is that rainfall patterns shifted dramatically during periods of ...

Stronger El Niño events are more likely when springtime surface waters in the western Pacific Ocean become unusually salty, a ...

Pine rings record a sharp rise in rainfall intensity and volatility, showing modern extremes exceed patterns seen over the past 500 years.

The trek across the North Sea island of Norderney—a barrier island in the German North Sea—is around five kilometers long. Designed by Lena Thissen, a researcher from the University of Oldenburg, ...

A new study published in Science Advances overturns a long-standing paradigm in climate science that stronger Northern Hemisphere summer insolation produces stronger tropical rainfall. Instead, a ...

Heath Kelsey, director of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Integration and Application Network, poses for a photo at the Annapolis Maritime Museum, in Annapolis, Md., on ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The health of the Chesapeake Bay declined in an annual report card on the nation's largest estuary released Tuesday, with scientists noting the effect of extreme rainfall patterns ...