Climate scientists are confronting a hard truth: some of the most widely used models are struggling to keep up with the pace ...

Climate models are a little more confusing than most people imagine them to be. But 2026 takes that confusion to the next ...

Trillions of dollars spent to fight climate change are being wasted worrying about meaningless, metric: global mean surface ...

Right now, the world’s best weather forecast model is a General Circulation Model, or GCM, put together by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. A GCM is in part based on code that ...

Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s future climate, we still don’t really know what’s coming. Some places are warming with more ferocity than expected. Extreme events are taking ...

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 ...

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, ...

CO2 can stimulate plant growth, but only when enough nitrogen is available—and that key ingredient has been seriously ...