LOS ANGELES - Atmospheric rivers, a meteorological phenomenon responsible for heavy rain and wind events, have become more ...

But how can global warming cause both drier and wetter extremes? Here’s what experts say. Water constantly moves between the Earth and its atmosphere. But that system — called the hydrological ...

It’s like an invisible river of air ... The jet stream, a powerful force in our atmosphere, is undeniably impacted by global warming. As temperatures rise, its behavior becomes more erratic ...

A trio of environmental scientists at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas—Universidad de las Islas Baleares, working with a pair of ...

The Amazon Basin in the north and the Paraguay River Basin in the south ... to be thickening slightly—because of global warming. The warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, which falls as ...

While tremendous progress has been made to reduce the production of these compounds, they have a lifespan in the atmosphere of 20–100 years, and the potential to increase global warming 1000 ...

We are already experiencing some of these effects. The consequences of global warming, including climate change, will affect billions of people, all around the world. Water from melting glaciers ...