When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect ...

Something unexpected happened in the climate science community over the past two years. While global temperatures soared to ...

Nature magazine, a top British weekly scientific journal, retracted a study predicting climate change would cost an annual $38 trillion throughout the next 25 years after its methodology and ...

On February 2, 1887, residents of Punxsutawney Pennsylvania consulted a large rodent regarding the arrival of spring, marking the first official celebration of Groundhog Day. Our ability to predict ...

University of Otago provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of Otago provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Climate change is no longer a distant threat. It’s ...

We know that heatwaves often trigger bushfires. But predicting when and where large fires will break out is getting more ...

By 2100, it predicted that if no action is taken to lower our fossil fuel use (a scenario called RCP8.5 by the UN’s ...

Climate Models: Climate models are fundamental tools for predicting future climate conditions. They simulate the Earth’s climate system, incorporating various elements such as the atmosphere, oceans, ...

Forests are the lungs of our planet. Not only do they absorb carbon dioxide and create oxygen, they also regulate temperature, absorb rainwater to help prevent flooding and provide critical habitat ...

2024 was the hottest in at least 125,000 years and the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest in nearly 200 years of record-keeping, the World Meteorological Organization reports. 2024 also has the ...

A new study shows it's possible for researchers to predict plant growth cycles, like leaf production and flowering time, with much more accuracy than ever before. The authors say this will be a ...