A strip of cool water stretches west from South America along the equator, helping set the pace for some of the planet’s most important weather swings. That Pacific “cold tongue” helps steer the El ...

Earth’s elliptical path around the Sun does more than keep the planet in a stable orbit. Because that path is not a perfect circle, the distance between Earth and the Sun changes throughout the year, ...

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Decades of satellite observations show that Earth's vegetation forms a moving balance point across continents and seasons.

A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, between 66 and 47.8 million years ago, rainfall across mid-latitude regions ...

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Earth’s green center has been drifting steadily for decades, reflecting a change in where vegetation grows most intensely.

We wouldn't blame you for taking Earth's four seasons for granted. Spring, summer, fall, and winter have been regularly calling the shots on what we wear, what time we wake up, and how much rock salt ...

Scientists say the Moon is slowly shrinking as its interior cools and contracts. While it is not disappearing, researchers ...

More extreme weather and shifting growing seasons are putting pressure on school meal programs, which serve nearly half a billion children worldwide. Jennifer Burney, a professor of Earth system ...