A class of powerful, invisible waves hidden beneath the surface of the ocean can shape the underwater edges of continents and contribute to ocean mixing and climate, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have found.

Were the past glacial ages wetter or dryer? Though it is often asked, this question does not actually make much sense because temperature and precipitation do not oscillate with the same rhythm. Glacial ages (periods of globally low temperature and a larger volume of polar ice) typically recur at 100,000 year intervals.

Assessing human impact on climate and ecosystems and predicting future climate evolution require knowledge of climates from past centuries.

Increasing summer temperatures could mean some parts of southern England are too hot to grow vines for making wine by 2080, according to a new book launched today (26 May 2008).

The prediction of future climate is, undoubtedly, one of the main challenges of our time, marked by the concern about climatic change and its effects, such as drought and natural disasters, poles thaw, rise of the sea level, diseases, etc. Climatic change poses different scientific challenges to researchers from all over the world, which must be tackled with new ideas, reliable data and advanced instruments.

A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics on Earth and similar planets finds that prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down plate tectonics and cause a planet's crust to become locked in place.

Scientists at The University of Manchester have helped to identify that the presence of large amounts of seaweed in coastal areas can influence the climate.

It is a great shame that the most creative professional group in the building trade, the architects, rarely apply themselves to existing housing. A large proportion of the Netherlands’ climate targets will after all have to be achieved within existing housing. This is one of the messages to be conveyed by Prof.

Science has come a long way with predicting climate. Increasingly sophisticated models and instruments can zero in on a specific storm formation or make detailed weather forecasts – all useful to our daily lives. But to understand global climate change, scientists need more than just a one-day forecast.

Into Saturday, the South and Northeast will endure a prolonged pounding of heavy rain and strong thunderstorms from a potent winter storm. As heavy snow falls along the rain's western fringe, blizzard conditions will develop over the eastern Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Valley on Saturday.

The midges that periodically swarm by the billions from Iceland's Lake Myvatn are a force of nature.

On March 12th, 2008, the International Polar Year (IPY) will launch its third 'International Polar Day', focusing on our Changing Earth; with a specific focus on Earth history as discovered through paleoclimate records that study the long term history of the Earth by analysing ice sheets and sediments below polar lakes and oceans.