Imagine walking through a dense forest on a scorching summer day, suddenly feeling the temperature drop by several degrees.

Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around for a long time. A really, really long time. A new study says the dance between El Niño and its counterpart, La Niña, was present on our ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences solves a long-standing climate mystery: Why don't the records of oxygen isotopes (δ 18 O) in cave formations like ...

La Niña effects vary drastically by region, even within the United States. Here's what it means for winter weather.

Thomas Wenzel’s perspectives on inevitable, natural climate cycles [STAR, July 30] are well presented but incomplete. They ignore the reality that populous technological societies can and do ...

La Niña can have extreme effects on weather across the US, including rain, hurricane season and more. What will it do in Mississippi?

LOS ANGELES - A new climate study suggests that humans may be responsible for shifts in Atlantic hurricane cycles. For the past couple of decades, scientists and meteorologists believed that hurricane ...