You probably saw a multi-coloured climate map at least once in school. You might have pored over it, fascinated. Was Antarctica really a cold desert? And why was so much of Russia listed as tundra?

Every year, about a billion people worldwide contract influenza, leading to as many as 650,000 deaths. Outbreaks are often ...

There's a particular kind of dread that comes from looking at a map of the world and realizing it no longer looks quite like the one you memorized in school. Colors that shouldn't exist in certain ...

Reconstructed surface air temperature (left) and rainfall amount (right) during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum warming event, 56 million years ago. The maps were created by blending geological ...

A multinational study seen in Scientific Data and led by KAUST reports that the global climate has experienced notable changes in climate classification over the past century, and these shifts are ...

Up to two thirds of the world’s temperate rainforests could fall victim to climate change by the year 2100 according to a new study by researchers at the University of Leeds. In the first ever ...