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A study published Oct. 15, 2026, in Nature Climate Change finds that the thin layers of ocean air that carry radio and radar signals far past the horizon have grown more frequent, stronger and deeper…

A stretch of unseasonably warm days in April rarely gets a name. It does not close schools or lead the evening news the way a July heatwave does, and climate research has mostly treated it the same…

Adding a machine learning correction step on top of existing weather models improved their forecasts two to six weeks ahead, a team led from Microsoft Research reported Oct. 14, 2026, in Nature. The…

The monthly sea surface temperature in the Pacific's Niño 3.4 region, the stretch of ocean used to monitor El Niño, reached an all-time high of 29.70 °C in September 2026, the Copernicus Climate…

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service reported on Oct. 2 that western Europe had its warmest summer in 2026 since its rankings began in 1950, averaging 21.7 °C across June, July and…

Forecasters at the Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre used laser measurements from Europe's EarthCARE satellite to verify how high the ash plume from Anak Krakatau was reaching, the European Space…

The Copernicus Climate Change Service said August 2026 was the joint warmest month ever recorded, tied with July 2023, at a global average surface air temperature of 16.96 °C. The service, run by the…

The eastern Ross Sea off Antarctica went through an extreme marine heatwave in the southern summer of 2022–23 and then grew its largest plankton bloom since satellite measurements of ocean color…

Enderby Land is one of the least-visited coasts on Earth, a long white shoulder of East Antarctica facing the Indian Ocean, with no permanent settlement and barely a weather station. What falls there…

Take every stretch of open ocean outside the polar seas, average the surface temperature across all of it, and the number you get has a season of its own. It is not the season most people live in. It…