The lifetime of nitrous oxide is decreasing more quickly than expected, which is changing climate projections.

For years, climate scientists have projected that South Texas would grow hotter and drier—that drought cycles would lengthen, that rainfall would become less reliable, and that the water systems built ...

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 ...

Forests are a cornerstone of the Earth system, playing a vital role in regulating climate and sustaining ecosystems by storing carbon, cycling nutrients, and controlling water availability. In the ...

Extreme climate impacts on people and the environment are often associated with very high levels of global warming (3 or 4°C). A new study led by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) ...

When Hurricane Michael ripped through Tyndall Air Force Base in October 2018, it destroyed or damaged nearly every structure ...

The Earth's climate system derives its energy from the Sun and any variations in the balance between energy received and emitted by the Earth can change the climate. Variations can be caused by ...

Climate change quite literally refers to rising temperatures. But a hotter Earth also means a rise in wildfires, floods, ...

Most of the conversation about climate change still feels abstract to a lot of people. Rising temperatures, shifting weather ...