Earth's tropical regions drive some of the most powerful weather and climate variability globally. Among these, the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a dominant intraseasonal climate signal, ...

As climate change intensifies, people around the world are learning firsthand how dangerous high temperatures can be. But ...

The tropical oceans that once served as oxygen-rich havens for Earth's earliest complex life have become the planet's largest marine dead zones. The dramatic reversal occurred hundreds of millions of ...

Scientific models have predicted that climate change will drive oceans in the Northern Hemisphere to warm faster than oceans ...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical storms Juliette and Fernand churned Tuesday over open waters, one in the Pacific Ocean and one in the Atlantic, at the same time as some officials continued to deal with the ...

Marine heat waves are supercharging damage caused by hurricanes and tropical cyclones across the globe, a new study found.

The world's oceans absorbed a record amount of heat in 2025, an international team of scientists said Friday, further priming conditions for sea level rise, violent storms, and coral death. The heat ...

What follows in the wake of tropical cyclones—strong, rotating storms that start above tropical oceans? Many people likely imagine destruction, if not even death. Hurricane Katrina, for example, was a ...

Tropical Storm Gabrielle formed over the central tropical Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning, becoming the seventh named storm of the 2025 hurricane season, according to forecasters with the National ...