A severe storm swept across Mongolia in March 2023, affecting more than 4 million square kilometres, including 20 provinces in China. The scope of these recent storms demonstrates their unprecedented ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new report by the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has found that sand and dust storms are leading to ...

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz contributed to a new global study published in Science that reveals how severe, long-term drought affects crucial grassland and shrubland ecosystems around the world.

Atmospheric dust plays a dual role in Earth's climate: it reflects some sunlight back into space while also absorbing and retaining the planet's heat like an insulating blanket. But while dust likely ...

Atmospheric dust may be heating the planet more than scientists thought, with new findings pointing to gaps in current ...

Many people across the Carolinas worry about climate change but rarely talk about it — and relatively few believe it will personally affect them. That’s according to Yale University’s 2024 Climate ...