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John Kerry, US special presidential envoy for climate, will soon leave his role in order to support Joe Biden in the presidential election.

Volunteers from Reading have helped to uncover 150 year old weather data collated by the founder of the UK Met Office.

Newly declassified documents from the Pacific theater have been digitized and could improve climate models

Newly declassified documents are making wartime weather observations in the Pacific Theater more robust, and could improve climate models today.

The U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet did more than help win World War II: As its ships made their way through the Pacific Ocean during the war, naval personnel used daily logbooks to record vital weather an...

Volunteers helped digitize millions of pieces of previously classified data.

A new dataset contains more than 3 million individual weather observations, as well as logs from vessels bombed at Pearl Harbor.

"The scanning and rescuing of this data provides a window into the past."

Open access notables Sea level rise (SLR) as a result of our atmospheric accident is a certainty; the outcome well realize sits between brackets restng far above zero. For any country with a sea coast— particularly those with a combination of human presence and low coastal elevations— theres more or less urgent need to figure out how accomodate encroachment. We get one chance to optimize this work and it wont be easy even with the best information. So, useful information we should kn...

Expedition maps hundreds of thousands of miles of previously unexplored seafloor by The Week team IBRAHIM CHALHOUB /AFP An expedition to map the seafloors of the Earth’s five oceans has provided new insights into their precise depths and locations, scientists say.  The Five Deeps Expedition explored the “key locations where the seafloor bottoms out” in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern Oceans in order to provide “the most precise information yet” on the oceans’ ...