A new map of climate conditions during the Pliocene epoch—the last time Earth’s carbon dioxide concentrations hit 400 parts ...

A new study suggests global warming’s effect on GDP has been vastly underestimated. Will it finally break through the ...

Back in 1824, a French physicist named Joseph Fourier made a breakthrough that would fundamentally change our understanding ...

As Trump moves to shutter the main vehicle of U.S. international humanitarian aid efforts, a host of environmental and climate programs have also been impacted.

The climate system is powered by radiation from the sun, of which approximately 49% is absorbed by the Earth's surface, and 20% is absorbed by the atmosphere (Kiehl & Trenberth 1997). This energy ...

As climate change leads to more frequent and intense extreme precipitation events, accurately predicting rainfall during the ...

Studies fundamental physical processes that govern terrestrial climate change, with emphasis on observations and particular attention to the Earth’s polar regions. Investigating everything from ocean ...

Earth system models (ESMs) integrate the interactions of atmosphere, ocean, land, ice, and biosphere to estimate the state of regional and global climate under a wide variety of conditions.

A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, ...

“What are the obligations of States under international law to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases for ...

The UNGA asked two questions: “What are the obligations of States under international law to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic ...

The recent Los Angeles wildfires are only the latest reminder that banks need to steel themselves against climate change both ...