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Researchers discovered that in 20 years since 2000, hurricanes intensified by 1.15 knots every six hours.

Climate scientists and national security experts at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working together to explore the security consequences of the chang

To assess a community's risk of extreme weather, policymakers rely first on global climate models that can be run decades, and even centuries, forward in time, but only at a coarse resolution.

MIT researchers developed a method to improve predictions from large-scale climate models. When paired with smaller-scale models to predict specific weather events such as tropical cyclones or floods, the approach produced more accurate predictions for how often specific locations will experience those events over the next few decades.

As if we needed another reason to quickly ditch fossil fuels: Cleaner snow melts much more slowly.

Our quickly warming world is losing many signs of winter—once snowy mountain tops aren’t as frosty tipped, glaciers are disappearing, and sea ice at the poles is melting at alarming rates. But new research outlines a small reason for optimism. Scientists project that even though climate change will make the world hotter, snow may actually become brighter and whiter. This more-reflective snow could help offset some of the ill effects of the climate crisis and slow down the rate of m...

Richland WA (SPX) Oct 16, 2023 - Less pollution settling into snow should help cut the decline of snowpack in the Northern Hemisphere later this century. Though the snowpack will still diminish due to rising temperatures, the outlo

Less pollution and the odd shapes of snow grains as they pack together should help cut the decline of snowpack later this century.

Gusts primed the Maui landscape to burn, then drove an out-of-control blaze. It’s a worst-case scenario that’s growing increasingly common around the world.

Backers hope that a network of next-generation modelling centres will help to whittle away uncertainties about the effects of global warming. Backers hope that a network of next-generation modelling centres will help to whittle away uncertainties about the effects of global warming.