Climate modeling is one of the most demanding intellectual exercises humans have ever attempted. Scientists are essentially ...

While global warming is still a threat, the decision to back away from a worst-case outlook raises questions about whether ...

Scientists say dominant climate and biodiversity models rely too heavily on existing economic systems and overlook inequality ...

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, ...

The New York Times on Tuesday acknowledged the rollback of an extreme global warming scenario it previously used as headline ...

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 ...

Recent adjustments to the most extreme scenarios included in key UN climate reports are being misrepresented across social ...

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 ...

The carbon stored globally by plants is shorter-lived and more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, according to a new study. The carbon stored globally by plants is shorter-lived and ...

Most people think of ice as frozen and lifeless, but research at Umeå University shows the opposite. A new study published in ...