El Niño Southern Oscillation (a climate pattern that involves temperature changes in the central and eastern tropical Pacific ...

Hidden nearly a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, one of Earth’s most active volcanoes may erupt before the year is out.

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are both losing net mass to the ocean, mostly through increased melting from ... creating more precipitation and potentially strengthening the El Niño climate ...

Efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C under the Paris Climate Agreement may not go far enough to save the world’s ice sheets ... warming air and ocean temperatures.

Ocean warming also contributes to sea-level rise by helping melt ice sheets because water expands ... El Niño is a natural, cyclical climate pattern that starts in the Pacific Ocean and can ...

“This pattern of volcanism ... accelerating rate. “Ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica are still melting,” Yuan said. “We think the ice melting could enhance seafloor spreading and volcanism ...

“I’m never comfortable with ice sheets as triggers for mass extinctions,” he says, because ice ages may be too short. “And so the idea that the ocean chemistry was playing a significant ...

They found that if The Big One were to occur in 2100, when waters along the Pacific coastline might be three feet higher than today as global ice sheets melt ... of earth and ocean sciences ...