Picture waking up to news that an entire continent is experiencing record drought while another faces devastating floods. This isn't science fiction – it's the reality of our interconnected climate ...

The trade winds are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in Earth's equatorial region, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern ...

Rising probabilities of an El Nino event this summer are drawing attention to potential global temperature spikes and their ...

Scientists have discovered that El Niño and La Niña could become far more powerful and predictable as the planet warms. By 2050, the tropical Pacific may hit a tipping point, locking ENSO into strong, ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), in collaboration with international partners, have shown that ocean temperature patterns help limit the global spread of droughts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. Climate change as defined by the United Nations refers to ...

Ocean temperatures may be quietly protecting the world from a global drought catastrophe. By analyzing more than a century of climate data, researchers discovered that droughts rarely spread across ...

Laura Wilcox receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Research Council of Norway, the Clean Air Fund, and Horizon Europe. Bjørn H. Samset receives funding from the ...

Natural climate processes, especially changes in sea‑surface temperatures in the Pacific and other oceans, limit how far and how uniformly droughts can spread. Researchers at the Indian Institute of ...