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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies? The Earth system is a vast ...

Global warming does not affect our planet evenly. Some areas such as the Arctic region or high mountain peaks warm faster than the global average, whereas others, including large parts of the tropical ...

Women are leading in building climate resilience with AI and data, despite not being included in climate research and ...

Europe is struggling more and more with extreme heat in the summer. While climate change is the main reason for this increase, what specific physical mechanisms cause a heat wave? One important driver ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding has quietly shaped more than a decade of federal climate regulation. That determination—that ...