The warming hole might be a sign that Atlantic Ocean currents are slowing down. This network of currents regulates Earth's ...

And then there’s the link between cold water seaweed and laundry detergent. So called biological detergents have been using enzymes to improve washes since the sixties, and scientists are ...

Warm air rises, but it also expands because air pressure decreases with height. The latter effect wins out and air becomes ...

During the past billion years, the Earth's climate has fluctuated between warm periods - sometimes even completely ice-free - and cold periods, when glaciers scoured the continents. The cold ...

a more disorganized polar vortex leading to sudden cold snaps fueled by icy northern air pushed toward the equator. "As the ...

Billions of years ago, the fourth planet from the sun could have been mistaken for Earth’s smaller twin, with liquid water on its surface—and maybe even life. Now, the world is a cold ...