By Juliet ETEFE Ghana has commenced implementation of a climate risk modelling programme aimed at strengthening the country’s ...

Dramatic droughts linked to the decline of the Classic Maya civilization approximately 800 to 1000 CE may not have required ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Fundamental Check on Climate Projections In the global effort to combat climate change, accurately estimating how much carbon our planet's forests, soils, and grasslands can absorb is critical.

New research reveals how different ecosystems, including those in Oregon, will likely change dramatically in as soon as 20 ...

Alice Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Priyanka Mahat is a research associate for climate change policy. Estimating the ...

Global warming does not affect our planet evenly. Some areas such as the Arctic region or high mountain peaks warm faster than the global average, whereas others, including large parts of the tropical ...

Climate modelling is spoken about often by climate scientists. These complex, computer-generated calculations enable scientists to make predictions about the climate of the future. Information ...

Climate scientists love trees, but forests are creating a massive blind spot in our predictions. From carbon sinks to permafrost, this video reveals why our models might be way off and what that means ...