STARKVILLE, Miss.—When Krzysztof Raczynski was working on his master’s degree in his native country of Poland, he was enthused to see a large waterfall during a trip to the Tatra mountains. However, ...

This week in Science we take a closer look at what climate change it is and its possible effects toward extreme weather and species extinction, as well as how Cornell scientists are monitoring it to ...

Climate change could push the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC the brink of collapse within decades, ...

The earliest climate models made specific forecasts about global warming decades before those forecasts could be proved or disproved. And when the observations came in, the models were right. The ...

Climate change is no longer a distant threat. It's here, it's real and it increasingly affects us all. But predicting climate change and its associated costs, particularly over long periods of time, ...

Humans have tried to predict the weather for as long as there have been floods and droughts. But in recent years, climate science, advanced computing and satellite imagery have supercharged their ...

Climate Talk is a series in which experts in the field of climate science shed light on the numerous impacts of climate ...

People across the continental U.S. suffered a record-breaking heatwaves in the first half of July 2024. With geography already posing challenges for Midwestern forecasters, meteorologist Chris ...

Forests are the lungs of our planet. Not only do they absorb carbon dioxide and create oxygen, they also regulate temperature, absorb rainwater to help prevent flooding and provide critical habitat ...