East Asia’s rainiest summer in decades became a brutal test for the next generation of climate models. The question was not ...

Something has shifted in the way climate scientists talk about their own work. The language has become noticeably more ...

Heat waves across Europe and South Asia have dominated the news recently. But these events are really a surface expression of ...

New research suggests Earth’s climate can swing wildly on surprisingly short timescales — even during hot, ice-free greenhouse periods. By studying ancient sediments from the Late Cretaceous, ...

Meier: “What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic.” That’s Walt Meier, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado. He says Arctic ...

By the time an El Niño is declared, it means Earth's atmosphere is already beginning to respond.

NASA is expanding its AI strategy to transform decades of Earth observation data into actionable scientific insights. By combining artificial intelligence, machine learning, climate research, ...

Past Center surveys have found that Americans with higher levels of formal education are more likely to say human activity is a big cause of climate change. This pattern is driven by Democrats. In ...

The Pacific Ocean is a giant climate cauldron, with a powerful heat engine that affects storms, fisheries and rainfall patterns half a world away, and scientists are watching closely to see if it’s ...

This year, we find that Earth’s energy imbalance- the difference between the amount of energy entering and leaving the planet- has doubled in recent decades, and is now at record levels. This extra ...