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The 10 Hottest Years on Record: A Climate Timeline
Every decade since 1980 has been warmer than the one before it, and the 10 hottest years in the 143-year instrumental record have ...
Is Extreme Weather Getting Worse? What the Data Shows
The short answer is yes, and the data is unambiguous. The number of weather-related disasters costing over $1 billion has increase...
Ice Cores: How Scientists Read 800,000 Years of Climate History
Ice cores are time capsules of Earth climate history, trapping air bubbles, dust, and chemical signatures in layers of compressed ...
Urban Heat Islands: Why Cities Are Much Hotter Than Surroundings
Cities can be 3-8 degrees Celsius warmer than surrounding rural areas, a phenomenon known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. T...
From Folklore to AI: The Evolution of Weather Forecasting
Weather forecasting has evolved from reading cloud patterns and animal behavior to running trillion-calculation-per-second compute...