Atmospheric dust plays a dual role in Earth's climate: it reflects some sunlight back into space while also absorbing and retaining the planet's heat like an insulating blanket. But while dust likely ...

Climate models provide reliable projections of many aspects of a warming planet over the next century and beyond due to human-caused climate change. Climate models are sets of mathematical equations ...

The cover photo, taken at the Strait of Malacca in Malaysia, captures the Tyndall effect as sunlight filters through the clouds over the tropical Pacific. The interplay of light and shadow ...

Is your city prepared for flooding caused by extreme rainfall under climate change? In many regions, the uncertainty surrounding this threat is a major cause for concern and an obstacle to adaptation.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Use of Climate and Hydrologic Models for Projecting Future Water Resources." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Review of the New York ...

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 ...

New research suggests the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could weaken by 43% to 59% by 2100, a far sharper decline than earlier models predicted. The AMOC, a key ocean current ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Water from the Patuxent River overflows onto a road in Laurel, Maryland. Heavy rains have swollen the Patuxent river, forcing the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) to release water from ...