A new open-access tool that dramatically speeds up the evaluation of climate models has been launched by an international team of scientists. The Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF) allows researchers to ...

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world’s largest ...

For reasons that are still unclear, climate models underestimate the growing gap between the amount of energy Earth receives ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

Climate science, for all its remarkable progress, still has some very unnerving blank spots. The planet is behaving in ways ...

Scientists at Rice, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research will track water’s unique fingerprints to better understand climate systems When it comes to Earth’s climate system, water is often at ...

A new study found that the threshold for human survivability during extreme heatwaves is a lot lower than previously thought.

A vast ocean current encircling Antarctica—more powerful than all the world’s rivers combined—played a surprisingly complex role in shaping Earth’s climate.

Scientists have developed a powerful new way to trace the journey of water across the planet by reading tiny atomic clues hidden inside it. Slightly heavier versions of hydrogen and oxygen, called ...

By the Early Oligocene Glacial Maximum, atmospheric CO2 was around 600 parts per million (ppm), after falling from roughly ...