East Asia’s rainiest summer in decades became a brutal test for the next generation of climate models. The question was not ...

The way science is funded is hampering Earth system models, and may be skewing important climate predictions, according to a new comment published in Nature Climate Change by Woodwell Climate Research ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

The work has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, which combines numerical modeling with observational data, the team ...

For over five decades, scientists have been striving to predict Earth's future climate. The progress has been remarkable, yet the task is daunting. As global warming accelerates, our ability to ...

Climate change poses an unprecedented risk for humans and Earth’s sustainability 1. This grand challenge threatens civil infrastructure, agriculture, water availability, public health, economic ...

Multiphysics, multiscale climate models, such as the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) generate massive volumes of data over extended time periods to support long-term climate analysis. Data ...

Earth’s last great survivor may not be humanity, or even animals. It may be photosynthesis itself. Cacti, some algae, and ...

Advancing the understanding of processes on Earth using artificial intelligence with models run on supercomputers is the topic of a talk that Forrest M. Hoffman, a group leader and computational ...

If you ask environmentalists about artificial intelligence, they will likely say its biggest drawback involves energy use. One AI research company estimates that querying a service like ChatGPT or ...

Map depicting current extent of permafrost in Northern Hemisphere (light blue) and projected extent of permafrost in 2070 (dark blue) under RCP 4.5 scenario. The way science is funded is hampering ...