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 ...

Airborne desert dust is doing more than just dirtying windshields, according to new work from UCLA researchers. Their study ...

Up to 36 per cent of animal habitats on land could be exposed to multiple extreme climate events by 2085, according to a new ...

For decades, scientists have worked to improve predictions of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climate powerhouse that ...

Scientific models have predicted that climate change will drive oceans in the Northern Hemisphere to warm faster than oceans ...

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 ...

JBA Risk Management, a specialist company focused on flood hazard modelling and climate risk analytics, has introduced a new ...

Climate modelling is spoken about often by climate scientists. These complex, computer-generated calculations enable scientists to make predictions about the climate of the future. Information ...

Climate and ecological models suggest that warming temperatures, habitat changes, and cattle density could allow common vampire bats, carriers of bovine paralytic rabies, to expand into southern Texas ...

Alice Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Priyanka Mahat is a research associate for climate change policy. Estimating the ...