Chris Osburn is an associate professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences at NC State.

A new study of UK lake sediment records stretching back over several centuries has found that the floods that hit Northern England in 2009 and 2015 (‘Storm Desmond’) were the largest in 600 years, pointing to the impact of climate changes on the frequency and magnitude of these extreme events.

Our planet is warming up. This is documented consistently by all measurements that are carried out worldwide. 

Researchers have developed a set of diode-based lidar instruments that could help fill important gaps in meteorological observations and fuel a leap in understanding, modeling and predicting weather and climate. 

Russian scientists have discovered a previously unknown mechanism of influence of salts migration on the degradation of gigantic intra permafrost gas (methane) hydrate reserves in the Arctic Shelf.

Tropical forests are being deforested at an alarming rate to make way for agriculture and pastureland; the good news is that they can regrow naturally when the fields are abandoned.

Rainfall from the Asian summer monsoon has been decreasing over the past 80 years, a decline unprecedented in the last 448 years, according to a new study.

In only 25 years, ocean melting has caused ice thinning to spread across West Antarctica so rapidly that a quarter of its glacier ice is now affected, according to a new study.

Avoiding catastrophic climate change was never going to be easy, and every year that passes makes the challenge a little more daunting.

About 10,000 years ago, giant beavers roamed the North American continent, along with now-extinct woolly mammoths and mastodons.