Considered natural allies against climate change due to their absorption of carbon dioxide, plants may however offer more ...

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of ...

After a record fall, when nearly the entire United States experienced drought—unprecedented in US Drought Monitor history—water managers and planners nationwide are nervously hoping for a wet winter, ...

Advanced computer models can quantify the impacts of climate change and other environmental challenges, providing deep ...

Climate models have been the basis for concern about climate change for more than 35 years. The US government, the United Nations, and organizations across the world have used model projections to ...

Sometimes papers are published that overturn the conventional wisdom. Other times papers are retracted since what they purported to be true turned out to be false. Such is also the case in the climate ...

Warming temperatures and rising sea levels disrupt operations and damage assets. Companies use private vendors' climate models to predict and mitigate potential losses. However, discrepancies in ...

The researchers applied statistical tools designed to identify structural changes in time series data over time, commonly called changepoint models, to four sets of global mean surface temperature ...

Humans have tried to predict the weather for as long as there have been floods and droughts. But in recent years, climate science, advanced computing and satellite imagery have supercharged their ...

In the housing market, consumers need more tools to assess risks from climate change. As insurers improve their risk ...