A new open-access tool that dramatically speeds up the evaluation of climate models has been launched by an international team of scientists. The Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF) allows researchers to ...

A Fundamental Check on Climate Projections In the global effort to combat climate change, accurately estimating how much carbon our planet's forests, soils, and grasslands can absorb is critical.

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world’s largest ...

New research reveals severe storm effects such as hail, tornadoes and wind have reached $208 billion in global insured losses ...

Weather forecasts help you decide whether to go for a picnic, hang out your washing or ride your bike to work. They also provide warnings for extreme events, and predictions to optimise our power grid ...