Global Warming: The Chilling Numbers Between 2011 and 2020, global temperatures were 1.1°C (about 2°F) higher than in the pre ...

Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more intense worldwide. Fires often become infernos because of heat, drought and wind, especially in the summer. The problem is compounded by the climate ...

The hydrologic system is subjected unprecedented stresses and increasing demands driven by climate variabilities, landuse changes, groundwater ...

A new development in data science has given one popular machine learning tool an improved sense of place, enabling it to make ...

Leaf functional traits—chlorophyll (CHL), carotenoid (CAR), equivalent water thickness (EWT), nitrogen (N), and leaf mass per ...

From emissions tracking to flood forecasting, AI is already tackling climate change. These five organizations show what works ...

Climate and ocean models use a series of equations to represent complex natural processes. However, the equations used in ...

Renewable energy has helped make the worst-case scenario a bit less bad. The president said, falsely, it shows that climate scientists were wrong all along. By Eric Niiler Scientists are dialing back ...

Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...