The planet is showing signs it's in peril. In recent weeks, the world has seen ferocious wildfires in the U.S. West, torrential rains in Africa, weirdly warm temperatures on the surface of tropical ...

High-quality weather and climate forecasts are vital to saving lives and managing resources. As climate change accelerates and extreme weather events worsen, accurate forecasting is becoming even more ...

For farmers, every planting decision carries risks, and many of those risks are increasing with climate change. One of the most consequential is weather, which can damage crop yields and livelihoods.

For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere. Today, ...

A new report found irrigated dairy farms are particularly at risk because water supplies are expected to become less reliable ...

Two satellite instruments that track Earth’s carbon dioxide levels will soon go offline, deemed “beyond their primary mission.” Two others meant to monitor water contamination and air pollution, ...

In the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, hurricane scientists have made great strides toward understanding how climate change influences tropical cyclones, at the same time as ...

Paul Myers emphasizes the necessity for very high-resolution computer models to effectively understand how ocean currents ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. As greenhouse gas ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Climate models are complex, just like the world they ...

Paul Winters receives funding from the Gates Foundation. He is the Executive Director of AIM for Scale. Amir Jina receives funding from AIM for Scale. For farmers, every planting decision carries ...

Forecast No. 1: Global warming from CO2 Manabe's first assignment in the 1960s at the U.S. Weather Bureau ... only recently. Climate models have their limitations, of course. For instance, they cannot ...