Global climate models capture many of the processes that shape Earth's weather and climate. Based on physics, chemistry, ...

When families decide where to buy a home, when cities approve new development, or when governments decide where to invest ...

After yet another international climate summit ended last fall without binding commitments to phase out fossil fuels, a ...

Researchers have devised a new machine learning method to improve large-scale climate model projections and demonstrated that the new tool makes the models more accurate at both the global and ...

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 ...

Much of the warming measured at the Earth’s surface over the past 125 years stems from temperature measurements from locations with growing urban populations resulting in the “urban heat island” ...

Satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Melissa churning northwest through the Caribbean Sea. The Category 5 hurricane is a recent example of ...

For years, public debate has treated climate change as a single number on a thermometer, rising in tiny fractions of a degree ...

Research warns urban heat island effects could push temperatures in growing cities well beyond climate model projections, intensifying risks to health ...