In recent years, the global climate has become increasingly extreme, with intensifying alternations of droughts and ...

The low-latitude highlands region of southwestern China experienced two major climate events in recent years: a severe ...

While links between temperature, humidity and the spread of coronaviruses have been closely studied in recent weeks, a new study suggests something else could be enhancing the spread of COVID-19: ...

Trees are largely heralded as a natural climate solution, but in some places, planting trees darkens the Earth’s surface and, in turn, brings unintended warming. Using data from satellites and models ...

While links between temperature, humidity and the spread of coronaviruses have been closely studied in recent weeks, a new study suggests something else could be enhancing the spread of COVID-19: ...

New high-resolution images of mid-latitude Mars are revealing glacier-formed landscapes far from the Martian poles, says a leading Mars researcher. Conspicuous trains of debris in valleys, arcs of ...

For humans, the mid-latitudes are Earth’s climate sweet spots, where much of civilization, including cities and key food production areas, have developed. But those zones are increasingly being ...

Golden aspen groves in the Rockies. Orange sassafras slopes along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Scarlet maples dotting New England’s lakeshores. As leaf-peeping season spreads across the U.S. each fall, it ...

Earth's climate zones—the horizontal belts of different climates that encircle the planet—consist of tropical, dry, temperate, continental, and polar zones. These major climate zones exist thanks to ...