Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including ...

For over five decades, scientists have been striving to predict Earth's future climate. The progress has been remarkable, yet the task is daunting. As global warming accelerates, our ability to ...

Just as astronomers use powerful telescopes to peer into the vast expanse of the universe, climate scientists use sophisticated climate models to gaze into the future and look back into the distant ...

Earth is inching closer to irreversible climate change according to a recent report by an international group of climate researchers and Earth System scientists. Tracking 35 planetary vital signs — ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s future climate, we still don’t really know what’s coming. Some places are warming with more ferocity than ...

The world is on course to trigger several climate "tipping points" if global government policies stay on their current course, according to a new study April 23. These points of no return are specific ...

For years, scientists have struggled to understand two major mysteries about the Earth’s climate: what triggered the formation of the vast ice sheets during the last ice age, and how did they spread ...

As recently as 10 years ago most scientists I interviewed and heard speak at conferences did not support geoengineering as a way to counteract climate change. Whether the idea was to release large ...

Four key pillars of the global climate are melting in the heat trapped by rising fossil fuel emissions, a new study has found. The relatively stable climate that nurtured human civilization depends in ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...

Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives, according ...