Artificial intelligence models have improved weather forecasting, but their inner workings are largely opaque. A new approach ...

Today we are witnessing rapid global sea level rise attributable mostly to climate change–driven melting of ice sheets and glaciers and thermal expansion of seawater. However, sea level change also ...

The Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, grew dry and patchy during a 2016 drought. Credit: Anishdayal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual ...

Since last May, climate change added an extra month of extreme heat for half the world’s population. Credit: James Day/Unsplash Sixty-seven extreme heat events have occurred since May 2024. All of ...

Map of inferred wind directions from parabola deposits (arrows). Arrow color denotes the age of the deposit – light blue is youngest and dark blue is oldest. The older arrows are more dispersed in ...

The Flint, Mich., water crisis began when state-appointed emergency managers switched the city’s drinking water source from the Detroit system to the Flint River in April 2014. Credit: State of ...

The upcoming Atlantic hurricane season will likely have above-normal activity, according to the annual outlook produced by NOAA. NOAA issues an Atlantic hurricane season outlook each May, using ...

The ebb and flow of tectonic processes have driven biodiversity on Earth for the past 250 million years. Credit: Joan Li, Unsplash For the past 250 million years, species have diversified and died out ...

Firefighters light and monitor prescribed burns to reduce the risk of extreme wildfires. But climate change may lead to fewer opportunities for these preventative measures. Credit: terski/Pixabay The ...

An unprecedented global assessment examines climate, economic, and governance threats to mountain systems and the benefits they provide, suggesting pathways toward sustainability. The project began ...

The Konza Prairie Biological Station in Kansas has changed over the past 30 years. Woody vegetation now grows where grasses once thrived. Credit: Walter Dodds Read more Walter Dodds has watched the ...