Extreme heat in 2023, 2024, and 2025 indicates a warming spike, a new analysis finds.
Modeling
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Temperatures Are Rising, but What About Humidity?
Humid heat extremes are less frequently studied, but no less important, than those of dry heat.
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What Could Happen to the Ocean’s Carbon If AMOC Collapses
Mass glacier melting may have led this influential ocean current system to collapse at the end of the last ice age. A pair of modeling studies examines how such a collapse could affect dissolved inorganic carbon and carbon isotopes in Earth’s oceans.
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Climate Change Could Drive Butterflies and Plants Apart
Insects and the plants they depend on are migrating in response to climate change, but not always in the same way.
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Trump Administration Plans to Break Up NCAR
The Trump administration is planning to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate and Earth science research laboratories, according to a statement from Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, to USA Today.
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Climate Modeling for Communities, with Communities
End users, such as Indigenous community members developing climate adaptation efforts, make better use of climate models when researchers collaborate with them from the start.
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Could Future Mars Habitats Be Made of Ice?
Models suggest that clear ice, sourced and distilled on Mars, could offer a feasible alternative for building stable off-world structures.
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Changing Winters Leave Indigenous Alaskans on Thin Ice
Researchers are blending Indigenous Knowledges with climate models to describe shifts in snow and ice.
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Astronauts Could Live in Structures Made from Moon Rocks
Scientists are testing “mooncrete,” a concrete analogue made from lunar regolith, as a potential material to build structures on the Moon.
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Episodic Tales of Salt
When episodic pulses of road salt hit after a winter storm, the impact can be like a lightning strike for the environment.