Emerging Pacific Ocean heat, combined with ongoing human-caused global warming, is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes.

El Niños arrive every few years, inflicting drought, flooding and other climate destruction across the globe. Climate ...

Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of fossil fuels in everything from power plants to transportation—Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the ...

A strong El Niño event is expected in 2026, which could bring mayhem to the upcoming storm season at the end of the summer.

Experts and international agencies issued a fresh warning on Tuesday as the anticipated return of the natural El Niño ...

Earth’s oceans reached their highest heat levels on record in 2025, absorbing vast amounts of excess energy from the atmosphere. This steady buildup has accelerated since the 1990s and is now driving ...

Earth’s oceans absorbed another record volume of heat in 2025, reinforcing a pattern that climate scientists say is accelerating ice loss in the Arctic and storing energy that will shape weather ...

New data confirms what climate experts have long worried about: a warm mass of deep polar water has expanded toward Antarctica.

January 2026 started with remarkable weather, including record temperatures, dramatic high tides and news that oceans keep getting warmer. During the first weekend of the new year, record-breaking ...

Super El Niño could shape North Carolina and South Carolina weather with wetter winters, increased flood risks, more storms — ...