Map depicting current extent of permafrost in Northern Hemisphere (light blue) and projected extent of permafrost in 2070 (dark blue) under RCP 4.5 scenario. The way science is funded is hampering ...

Global warming does not affect our planet evenly. Some areas such as the Arctic region or high mountain peaks warm faster than the global average, whereas others, including large parts of the tropical ...

CLIMES is an interdisciplinary, collaborative space for regional, intersectoral modeling of Earth’s systems. The lab provides quantitative, computational projections of regionally relevant human and ...

Climate change is already reshaping global weather patterns and ecosystems around the world. In the long-term, its consequences could range from further substantial increases in the number of extreme ...

For more than fifty years, Earth observation (EO) programs have delivered comprehensive, large-scale perspectives of our planet, enabling researchers to analyze environmental conditions across regions ...

The term 'Digital Twin of the Earth' creates the idea of the availability of a highly accurate virtual copy of our planet, enabling researchers to predict the most complex future climate developments ...

University of California, Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Ashesh Chattopadhyay will build AI models to project extreme Earth-system events with the support of the highly ...

From a bird's eye view, the Amazon rainforest appears as a lush green mosaic of treetops stretching as far as the eye can see. It is home to countless animal and plant species, many of which are ...

The technology used to predict sand and dust storm (SDS) severity has for decades systematically overestimated when and where ...

Forecasts of climate change for the next century are based on general circulation models (GCMs) that have been developed and tuned primarily using twentieth century records, but also with some input ...