Climate modeling is one of the most demanding intellectual exercises humans have ever attempted. Scientists are essentially trying to compress the entire physical behavior of the atmosphere, ocean, ...

Scientists, including those working with the Earth Commission, are calling for a fundamental rethink of how the world imagines its future, arguing that today's dominant climate and biodiversity models ...

Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...

Let's be real, we've heard it all before. Such doomsday predictions have been commonplace for more than 50 years now, but here's the thing: Ever since they were first made, they have been dead wrong.

There are some scientists whose contributions to the stores of human knowledge are so well-known that they have become household names. I don’t think it’s going too far out on a limb to say that ...

While global warming is still a threat, the decision to back away from a worst-case outlook raises questions about whether some risks have been overstated. By Brad Plumer and Eric Niiler Reporting ...

It feels like there’s no escaping AI right now, whether you’re trying to type a sentence without being interrupted by a digital “assistant” or struggling to find a new refrigerator that doesn’t ...