Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the ...

We've been watching temperatures climb, extreme weather events intensify, and ice sheets shrink. Every weather forecast and climate projection relies on incredibly complex computer simulations that ...

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 ...

A new report by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO reveals a critical lack of understanding of ...

Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 12-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for their project “Boosting Earth System ...

The report warns many economic models are failing to capture extreme weather events and rising uncertainty likely to dominate impacts in a hotter world.

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 ...

People often think of a heatwave as a temporary event, a brutal week of sun that eventually breaks with a cool breeze. But as the climate changes globally, in parts of Africa, that level of heat is ...