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From hot summers and rainy monsoons to cool autumns and cold winters, seasons shape how we live, eat, dress and celebrate. But why does the Earth have different seasons every year? Contrary to popular ...

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 ...

Earth's seasonal cycles can vary dramatically across short distances, even at the same latitudes, a new study suggests. Researchers have compiled a detailed map of seasonal rhythms around the world, ...

The planet's seasons are not as immutable as previously thought. Turns out there are parts of the world that have different seasonal timing than those regions even just a short distance away. This ...

Summertime fire activity is creeping into spring, and the balmier climate is a major driver, scientists said. By Raymond Zhong California’s main wildfire season is starting earlier in the year, and ...

Human activity has added an average of 40 days to the global wildfire season, fundamentally changing when fires occur around the world. New research from the University of Tasmania, published in ...