The main challenges for climatic predictions in Australia at the moment are resulting from the unusual sea surface temperature patterns around most of the continent. In the eastern half of the Pacific ...

Icebergs in the Antarctic gradually melting further and further from the frozen continent could have been the trigger that plunged Earth into previous ice ages, study finds. Researchers from Cardiff ...

The fact that the oceans are warming is nothing new. However, this is not happening evenly: scientists have found a pattern. According to this pattern, the oceans are warming faster in two bands that ...

image: Bluefin tuna, a long-lived migratory species that accumulates mercury as it ages, can be used as a global barometer of the heavy metal and the risk posed to ocean life and human health, ...

"The amount of heat going into the ocean continues to increase." Between 2010 and 2020, the ocean absorbed (roughly) the equivalent amount of energy released when detonating a Tsar Bomba — the most ...

A new review published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences sheds light on one of climate science’s enduring puzzles: how the patterns of tropical ocean warming influence the behavior of tropical ...

EASTERN Australia could see a long-term change in weather patterns should an emerging trend in a key climate driver continue to develop.