Climate Systems

Climate systems are the interconnected components and processes that shape Earth’s climate. These include interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, ice, land and living ecosystems, which exchange energy, water and carbon and influence climate variability, long-term trends and climate change.

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3D method reveals atmospheric rivers behind Antarctic snowfallScience

3D method reveals atmospheric rivers behind Antarctic snowfall

Researchers in Japan demonstrate how vertically layered atmospheric rivers influence snowfall variability in Antarctica Summary: Scientists have developed a three-dimensional method that maps atmospheric rivers…
SourceSourceJune 29, 2026 Full article
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Climate model suggests warmer Gulf waters limited rainfall during deadly Texas floodsScience

Climate model suggests warmer Gulf waters limited rainfall during deadly Texas floods

Researchers examined how Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperatures and wet soils influenced the extreme storms of 4 July 2025 Summary: Warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures…
SourceSourceJune 25, 2026 Full article
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Uniting Norway’s research community for the future of the Arctic OceanNews

Uniting Norway’s research community for the future of the Arctic Ocean

Paul E. Renaud of Akvaplan-niva has been appointed program director of Arctic Ocean 2050 (Polhavet 2050). He succeeds Bodil Bluhm, who has served as Acting…
SourceSourceJune 19, 2026 Full article
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Future climate may reshape how sunlight reaches EarthScience

Future climate may reshape how sunlight reaches Earth

New study reveals polar dimming and mid-latitude brightening of surface solar radiation under climate change Summary: Polar regions may receive less sunlight at the surface…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2026 Full article
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Deep ocean heat shifts toward Antarctica increasing ice shelf melting riskClimate

Deep ocean heat shifts toward Antarctica increasing ice shelf melting risk

A new decades-long study of oceanographic data provides the first evidence that deep-ocean heat has moved closer to Antarctica, threatening the fragile ice shelves that…
SourceSourceApril 30, 2026 Full article
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Venice may face relocation as sea levels riseClimate

Venice may face relocation as sea levels rise

Rising sea levels are expected to push Venice beyond its current flood defences, forcing increasingly complex and costly adaptation choices, with relocation emerging as a…
SourceSourceApril 20, 2026 Full article
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Underground peat fires drive hidden carbon emissions in Swedish wildfiresScience

Underground peat fires drive hidden carbon emissions in Swedish wildfires

Researchers at Lund University have produced the most detailed map of carbon emissions from Swedish forest fires to date. The results show that the largest…
SourceSourceMarch 3, 2026 Full article
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Antarctic cloud formation probed in first inland aerosol flights in 20 yearsScience

Antarctic cloud formation probed in first inland aerosol flights in 20 years

The SANAT flight campaign investigated the origin and transport of aerosols in the Antarctic atmosphere that cause the formation of clouds – for the first…
SourceSourceFebruary 23, 2026 Full article
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What drove the atmospheric methane spike in the pandemic years?Climate

What drove the atmospheric methane spike in the pandemic years?

Climate-driven emissions from wetlands, inland waters, and paddy rice – combined with weakened atmospheric removal – drove the surge, a new Science study shows Summary:…
SourceSourceFebruary 14, 2026 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: February 8, 2026Science

Climate Science Digest: February 8, 2026

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press roundup (February 8, 2026), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In brief:…
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Earth’s climate flipped rapidly even in an ice-free worldClimate

Earth’s climate flipped rapidly even in an ice-free world

New findings help explain abrupt climate swings – even in ancient ice-free greenhouse worlds – and offer insights for future warming scenarios Earth’s climate is…
SourceSourceJanuary 19, 2026 Full article
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Ancient global warming shows rainfall became more intense and less regularClimate

Ancient global warming shows rainfall became more intense and less regular

'Proxies' in geologic record show rainfall was more intense, but less regular during the Paleogene Summary: Ancient global warming offers important clues about how rainfall…
SourceSourceJanuary 11, 2026 Full article
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Deep ocean temperatures challenge past views of the Antarctic ice sheetClimate

Deep ocean temperatures challenge past views of the Antarctic ice sheet

New temperature reconstructions suggest the Antarctic ice sheet remained more stable during the Oligocene than long assumed Summary: Understanding past Antarctic ice sheet behaviour relies…
SourceSourceJanuary 8, 2026 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: December 5, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: December 5, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press roundup (December 5, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In brief:…
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Image of the day: Winter shadows along eastern GreenlandNews

Image of the day: Winter shadows along eastern Greenland

Eastern Greenland enters a period of rapid seasonal transition each November, as the approach of winter brings weaker sunlight and falling temperatures across the high…
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Climate Science Digest: November 19, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: November 19, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press roundup (November 19, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In brief:…
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Europe’s summer could lengthen by 42 days by 2100Climate

Europe’s summer could lengthen by 42 days by 2100

New research reveals for the first time why Europe could gain more than an extra month of summer days by 2100 using climate data from…
SourceSourceNovember 19, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: November 7, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: November 7, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press roundup (November 7, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In brief:…
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Four key climate components are losing stabilityClimate

Four key climate components are losing stability

Four of the most important interconnected parts of the Earth's climate system are losing stability. This is shown by an international scientific study based on…
SourceSourceOctober 5, 2025 Full article
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Earth’s carbon cycle may trigger future ice age, scientists warnScience

Earth’s carbon cycle may trigger future ice age, scientists warn

Study: how Earth may overcorrect for warming Summary: A new study published in Science suggests that Earth’s natural carbon cycle, long thought to stabilize global…
SourceSourceSeptember 28, 2025 Full article
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Climate change may bring fewer but larger hailstorms to EuropeClimate

Climate change may bring fewer but larger hailstorms to Europe

Warming may lead to less frequent but bigger and more devastating hailstorms, new research has shown Summary: Climate change could make Europe’s hailstorms less frequent…
SourceSourceSeptember 28, 2025 Full article
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Flood risk predictions improve with new climate modeling methodClimate

Flood risk predictions improve with new climate modeling method

New modeling method offers clearer flood risk predictions under climate change, helping policymakers plan for future warming scenarios Summary: Flooding caused by extreme rainfall is…
SourceSourceSeptember 23, 2025 Full article
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Ocean carbon sink weakened as record heat drove CO₂ release in 2023Climate

Ocean carbon sink weakened as record heat drove CO₂ release in 2023

Measurements analysed by an international research team led by ETH Zurich show that the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented…
SourceSourceSeptember 22, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: September 17, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: September 17, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (September 17, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
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