In this spirit of rigorous worldbuilding, we just published a new study where we merged the disparate disciplines of literary worldbuilding and climate modelling. We used complex computer programs – ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo challenges a long-standing assumption about Earth's most extreme ice ages. Using numerical ...

There are increasing indications El Niño is likely to form and strengthen into potentially a significant event during the next several months, throwing weather patterns worldwide out of whack. El Niño ...

Both 2023 and 2024 were exceptionally warm years influenced by an El Niño event and the solar maximum, but those years ...

A strip of cool water stretches west from South America along the equator, helping set the pace for some of the planet’s most important weather swings. That Pacific “cold tongue” helps steer the El ...

Decades of satellite observations show that Earth's vegetation forms a moving balance point across continents and seasons.

The pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, a new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters has ...

Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expec ...

Is the world getting hotter, faster? It’s a big question which has been puzzling and dividing scientists for years. A new paper says it has the answer, and it’s not good news. Global warming has ...

Ocean temperatures may be quietly protecting the world from a global drought catastrophe. By analyzing more than a century of climate data, researchers discovered that droughts rarely spread across ...

Solar cycles, sea ice and rising electricity use all play a role. So does an unhealthy surprise that has been quietly hiding ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...