Decades of independent observations and improved methods strengthen the evidence that greenhouse gases are changing Earth’s ...

The writer Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term "tipping points" to refer to the moment when a trend or social behavior ...

About a decade ago, a group of climate scientists described five scenarios for the future. Called the Shared Socioeconomic ...

The researchers applied statistical tools designed to identify structural changes in time series data over time, commonly called changepoint models, to four sets of global mean surface temperature ...

Climate models have been the basis for concern about climate change for more than 35 years. The US government, the United Nations, and organizations across the world have used model projections to ...

A study describes a new computer algorithm which can be applied to Earth System Models to drastically reduce the time needed to prepare these in order to make accurate predictions of future climate ...

Chinese milk vetch quietly does a lot of heavy lifting in southern China’s rice paddies. Grown as a winter cover crop, it fixes nitrogen, builds soil carbon, and cuts farmers’ reliance on synthetic ...

Computer models predict that hotter, drier conditions in North America will limit the growth of a fungus that normally curbs the spread of the spongy moth, an invasive species that has caused millions ...