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A supercomputer called Yellowstone will help researchers map climate change down to the local level. 
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There are new findings from inside a cave and a key cultural and religious center for the ancient Maya.
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One of the primary instruments on NASA's Aqua spacecraft is the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), which is providing a detailed three-dimensional view of the atmosphere. This new view is helping scientists to better understand the climate system and is proving of great value also in several practical applications, including weather forecasting.
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Researchers claim to have solved the 'missing energy' discrepancy between atmospheric and ocean temperature measurements.
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The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. Via José Gonçalves
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SYDNEY: Climate change may quadruple the loss of life due to extreme heat in the city, a new Australian study has predicted. Cunrui Huang and colleagues at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane investigated how temperature changes affect the death rate in Brisbane. The study adopted a ground-breaking way of measuring climate change deaths, which could become standard for similar studies carried out for other cities. "This is something every individual city has to look at," said co-author Adrian Barnett, explaining that cities around the world have unique climate and housing conditions. The results appear in Nature Climate Science today.
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Shocking discoveries from the underground may shake up climate science...
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A one minute animation about climate change and energy from WWF-Brazil. Via elearning hoje, Sarantis Chelmis
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Ancient Meso-American civilizations of the Mayans and Aztecs likely amplified droughts in the Yucatan and southern Mexico by clearing rainforests to make room for pastures and farmland.
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Two University of Colorado Boulder researchers who have adapted a three-dimensional, general circulation model of Earth's climate to a time some 2.8 billion years ago when the sun was significantly fainter than present think the planet may have...
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Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in the past 60 years, reports a pair of Swiss climate modellers in a paper published online today. Most of the observed warming — at least 74 % — is almost certainly due to human activity, they write in Nature Geoscience1.
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UCLA life scientists and colleagues have produced the most comprehensive mathematical model ever devised to track the health of populations exposed to environmental change.
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For much of the last 250 million years the Earth has been warmer than today. Around 50 million years ago during the early Cenozoic era, the climate began to cool. A key threshold was crossed 35 million years ago and the Antarctic ice sheet began to grow – the first continental scale ice sheet in 300 million years that ultimately led to the establishment of our modern icehouse climate system. Using a combination of laboratory measurements and computer modelling to unravel the sequence of events, this project aims to understand what caused this fundamental transition of Earth’s climate from a warm “greenhouse” to relatively frigid “icehouse”.
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Plants subjected to a previous period of drought learn to deal with the stress thanks to their memories of the experience, new research has found.
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Married people may pledge to stay faithful through good times and bad, but birds sing a different tune -- when weather is severe or uncertain, birds are more likely to stray from their mates, says a new study.
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If climate change – especially warming – is really the result of human activity, why have we seen some record low temperatures recently? AtmosNews lightheartedly look at why some people call carbon dioxide the steroids of the climate system.
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Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world's species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change, experts say.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss mathematicians have shown that the risk of extreme climate events is largely underestimated. They are developing a model for better understanding the impact of climate change.
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The seasonal growth of plants—both on land and in the ocean—is one of the most striking patterns visible on Earth from space. This green "pulse" of life is intimately connected with the planet's carbon cycle and changing climate. In this data visualization, watch plants grow and die with the seasons and learn about the resulting effects on carbon and climate.
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Climate change in the form of reduced snowfall in mountains is causing powerful and cascading shifts in mountainous plant and bird communities through the increased ability of elk to stay at high elevations over winter and consume plants, according...
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Many of the particles in the atmosphere are produced by the natural world, and it is possible that plants have in recent decades reduced the effects of the greenhouse gases to which human activity has given rise.
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SAN FRANCISCO — For generations, the Maya thrived in an advanced, complex civilization in modern-day Central America. But then their society collapsed in the eighth and ninth centuries.
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Arctic air temperatures were approximately 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit higher in 2011 than the baseline number for the previous three decades.
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Really neat global view of how water vapor moves in the atmosphere. Shows the windstorm
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Living World | evolution | One of the strangest aspects of our understanding of evolutionary biology is the tendency to conflate a sprawling protean dynamic into a sliver of a phenomenon.
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