How do scientists determine whether climate change is driving extreme weather events like the floods, heat waves and droughts that we’re experiencing today? To find out about the science of ...

Computer scientists and weather scientists have taken the first steps toward creating an AI agent capable of analyzing and answering questions in natural language, such as English, about data from ...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now ...

Paul J. Durack is a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA. Carlo Buontempo is director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service at the European Centre ...

Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. As greenhouse gas levels, primarily carbon dioxide due to the burning of ...

The extent of sea level rise measured by satellites around the world is in line with what climate models predicted in the 1990s, a new study has confirmed. That’s bad news, because what those models ...

Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...