The world’s largest climate modeling initiative is quietly ramping up its next project, but U.S. participation is a wild card ...
Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming. Existing climate models have failed to capture this ...
Changes in rainfall within global monsoon regions affect the livelihoods of billions. For years, climate models have ...
Nadir Jeevanjee works for NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which is discussed in this article. The views expressed herein are in no sense official positions of the Geophysical Fluid ...
Satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Melissa churning northwest through the Caribbean Sea. The Category 5 hurricane is a recent example of ...
By John Cannon Planting trees is a vital strategy to combat both climate change and the biodiversity crisis. As forests grow, ...
The accelerating impacts of climate change present a stark paradox. While the crisis is undeniably global, its burdens are borne with acute and ...
2024 is officially the hottest year ever recorded on Planet Earth, at least while humans have been around, according to the official tallies from meteorological organizations around the world. The ...
About 700 million years ago, Earth froze over so completely that even tropical oceans turned to ice, an episode scientists call Snowball Earth. New research now points to an overlooked accomplice in ...