New analysis of soil moisture projections from climate models could help resolve a discrepancy between expected increases in aridity and precipitation over land.
Climate Change
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Removing Carbon from the Ground Up
Massive plantations for storing carbon and growing biofuel won’t achieve the Paris Agreement’s “2-degree guardrail,” but they could help.
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Climate and Ocean Science Builds for the Future
Second WCRP/CLIVAR Open Science Conference: Charting the Course for Climate and Ocean Research; Qingdao, China, 18–25 September 2016
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Can Ocean Tides Be Powerful Indicators of Climate Change?
A new study simulates how ocean warming due to climate change will affect the electromagnetic signal emitted by ocean tides over the next century.
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Trump Says United States Will Withdraw from Paris Climate Accord
Scientists and others decry the decision, arguing that it will slow efforts to address the risks of climate change.
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New Supercomputers Allow Climate Models to Capture Convection
Scientists evaluate the latest version of a fine-scale climate model by simulating a decade of precipitation patterns across Europe.
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What Does U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement Mean?
The Trump Administration has pulled the United States out of a landmark climate accord. But withdrawal does not change the science of how our planet works.
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Scientists Predict Active Hurricane Season
A combination of warm sea surface temperatures and a weak or absent El Niño may create conditions conducive to tropical storm formation.
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Unseasonable Weather Entrenches Climate Opinions
Democrats and Republicans double down on their climate change opinions when faced with slightly cooler or warmer weather.
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Concern About Climate Change Drives Arctic Council Meeting
Actions taken by ministers at the meeting included an agreement on international Arctic scientific cooperation and adoption of recommendations of a report on the region’s changing state.