Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

Agency cuts, layoffs and policy shifts are throwing America’s role into question. The world’s largest climate modeling initiative is quietly ramping up its next project, but U.S. participation is a ...

Higher resolution climate data is now part of the Met Office Local Authority Climate Service (LACS) following a notable ...

Penn History and Sociology of Science assistant professor Melissa Charenko recently published a new book discussing how 20th-century climate researchers used proxies to model ancient climates. The ...

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 ...

Further staffing cuts at the CSIRO threaten its ability to model and predict the progress of climate change, reflecting a ...

Most Americans now accept the basic physics of climate change—that manmade greenhouse-gas emissions are raising global temperatures. Yet the public discussion of climate change is still remarkably ...

Science should not be a partisan game, and it’s wrong to call out partisanship from just one direction, writes Bjorn Lomborg. iStock / Getty Images Green activists accuse the Trump administration of ...