Democrats on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce plan to introduce comprehensive legislation later this year to deal with climate change.Read More »Climate Change
None of the cold and warm epochs from the past 2,000 years were global events, but the current period of climate change is more intense and is happening simultaneously across the entire planet.Read More »Climate Change
A pair of revisions to the Energy Exascale Earth System Model improves its ability to capture late afternoon and nocturnal rainfall as well as the timing and movement of convection.Read More »Climate Change
A new study finds that rainfall rates are recovering in some cities since a 1966–1990 dry spell, but precipitation is still down overall since 1950.Read More »Ocean Sciences
The latest version of NOAA’s Global Surface Temperature Dataset improves coverage over land and sea and improves the treatment of historical changes in observational practices.Read More »Biogeosciences
Mexico’s megadiverse biota challenge observation network design for efficient sampling, but novel methods can provide guidance and tests of representativeness.Read More »Geohealth
New research finds that verifying cryptocurrency produces about the same amount of carbon emissions as the Kansas City metropolitan area.Read More »Climate Change
Uncontrolled releases of household, industrial, and agricultural chemicals during natural disasters pose an underappreciated hazard to humans and ecosystems. Here’s what we can do.Read More »
