Something unexpected happened in the climate science community over the past two years. While global temperatures soared to unprecedented levels in 2023 and 2024, researchers found themselves unable ...

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center released its latest ENSO Diagnostic Discussion on March 12, noting a transition from La Niña conditions and increasing odds that El Niño will develop later this year.

MIT study highlights risk of deploying large AI models for climate science — supporting the assertion that, when it comes to AI, bigger isn’t always better. Environmental scientists are increasingly ...

Researchers found major fire models underestimate carbon released from deep peat soils in boreal forests. Field data from 324 ...

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 ...

Japan is an archipelago with diverse climate zones and complex topography that is prone to heavy rain and flooding. Add the growing effects of global warming. These disaster risks are heightened with ...

Nadir Jeevanjee works for NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which is discussed in this article. The views expressed herein are in no sense official positions of the Geophysical Fluid ...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now ...

The evaluation will compare AI-based predictions with actual rainfall and climate data, says IMD director general Mrutyunjay Mohapatra.

Australia’s science agency is cutting more than 100 jobs in its Environment Research Unit, which critics say will crush our capacity to predict climate change.