When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect ...

Climate change is unexpectedly causing north Pacific storms to shift toward the Arctic, throwing projections for future West ...

Climate risks are global, but prediction systems remain nationally siloed. The NCAR breakup shows why weather and climate ...

By 2100, it predicted that if no action is taken to lower our fossil fuel use (a scenario called RCP8.5 by the UN’s ...

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 ...

After a record fall, when nearly the entire United States experienced drought—unprecedented in US Drought Monitor history—water managers and planners nationwide are nervously hoping for a wet winter, ...

Climate change is already shaping our well-being. It affects mental health, spreads infectious diseases, disrupts work, damages food supplies and forces families to leave their homes because of ...

Later this century, sometime toward my teenage son’s late middle age, climate change might torch 50 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. I’ll say that again. Sometime around 2070–2090, ...

This summer’s first heat wave hit the central and eastern U.S. this week, bringing the hottest temperatures of the season so far. Overnight lows were projected to remain 15 to 20 degrees above average ...