The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Why do many people dismiss issues like climate change, despite strong scientific evidence? Climatologist J. Marshall Shepherd examines how different forms of bias shape how we perceive science. Dr. J.

A new Weather Channel show, Weather Geeks, covers contemporary weather issues in a news talk show format. Dr. Marshall Shepherd, director of the University of Georgia's Atmospheric Science program and ...

My Forbes articles are inspired by many different things. This one was inspired by browsing social media and seeing that my colleague Brian McNoldy had posted a really neat analysis of near-surface ...

If you read my biography, I guess you could say that my career as been rewarding. I was a NASA scientist, the President of the American Meteorological Society, and recipient of several awards in my ...

Throughout the world, cities have been shown to have what is known as an urban heat island effect, where the urban or metropolitan area is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas due to ...