Researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, combine various past climate data to investigate the impacts of ...

Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher latitudes, and ...

Explosive tropical volcanic eruptions can set off a chain reaction in the atmosphere that weakens the Asian summer monsoon ...

Volcanoes are both captivating and disastrous. Most are likely familiar with the common short-term dangers associated with ...

High above our heads and unseen to the naked eye, rivers of water vapor flow through the atmosphere. These "atmospheric rivers" are crucial to the global water cycle. Astonishingly, they have the ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow corridors of concentrated water vapor in the atmosphere that transport vast amounts of moisture from the tropics toward mid-latitude and polar regions. These ...

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance, to break down in the atmosphere ...