Across the globe, monsoon rainfall switches on in spring and off in autumn. Until now, this seasonal pattern was primarily understood as an immediate response to changes in solar radiation. A new ...

The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, between 66 and 47.8 million years ago, rainfall across mid-latitude regions ...

Ancient cave records reveal that repeated heavy rainfall and flooding, not drought, caused the decline of the Shijiahe culture in China.