A new open-access tool that dramatically speeds up the evaluation of climate models has been launched by an international team of scientists. The Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF) allows researchers to ...

Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

Climate science, for all its remarkable progress, still has some very unnerving blank spots. The planet is behaving in ways that even the most sophisticated models struggle to explain. From the deep ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new way to trace the journey of water across the planet by reading tiny atomic clues hidden inside it. Slightly heavier versions of hydrogen and oxygen, called ...

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 ...

Dramatic droughts linked to the decline of the Classic Maya civilization approximately 800 to 1000 CE may not have required ...

Climate modelling is spoken about often by climate scientists. These complex, computer-generated calculations enable scientists to make predictions about the climate of the future. Information ...