The world’s largest climate modeling initiative is quietly ramping up its next project, but U.S. participation is a wild card ...

Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming. Existing climate models have failed to capture this ...

Changes in rainfall within global monsoon regions affect the livelihoods of billions. For years, climate models have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People often think of a heatwave as a temporary event, a brutal week of sun that eventually breaks with a cool breeze. But as the ...

We've been watching temperatures climb, extreme weather events intensify, and ice sheets shrink. Every weather forecast and climate projection relies on incredibly complex computer simulations that ...

Nitrogen is an important component of the global environment, affecting agriculture, climate, human health, and ecosystems. The role of the nitrogen cycle has become more widely appreciated, yet Earth ...

Patagonia’s glaciers have been shrinking faster than ever over the past two decades, and the reasons go far beyond simple warming. New research shows a deeper, long-term shift in the atmosphere is to ...

The accelerating impacts of climate change present a stark paradox. While the crisis is undeniably global, its burdens are borne with acute and ...

Satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Melissa churning northwest through the Caribbean Sea. The Category 5 hurricane is a recent example of ...

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 ...