A technique that allows developers to shrink powerful artificial intelligence models into cheaper, more efficient systems has ...

Assessing how climate change will affect different regions usually requires running a complex chain of models. While this ...

AI weather models have crossed from research into routine operations at major forecasting centers. The European Centre for ...

When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

RCP8.5, a high-emissions climate scenario deemed to be the “business-as-usual” model under which no efforts are made to curb climate change, has been removed by scientists. This model represented what ...

Last week, it was widely reported that the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made some very newsworthy adjustments to its modeling. Its doomsday model had breathlessly ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump took a victory lap late Saturday after a prominent international climate change panel backed off using some of the most aggressive doomsday estimates after determining ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted Democratic climate policies after scientists moved away from one of the most extreme global warming scenarios previously used in United Nations-backed ...

Agency cuts, layoffs and policy shifts are throwing America’s role into question. The world’s largest climate modeling initiative is quietly ramping up its next project, but U.S. participation is a ...

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 ...

After yet another international climate summit ended last fall without binding commitments to phase out fossil fuels, a leading global climate model is offering a stark forecast for the decades ahead.