The Basic Difference: Time Is Everything When it comes to distinguishing between weather and climate, weather generally covers short and specific timeframes and locations, while climate focuses on ...

Climate and weather are two terms that go hand in hand but often get conflated. When the weather turns cold, meteorologists and climate scientists almost always get a variation of the same question, ...

What triggers “climate silence”? Researchers take a look. Editor at Large It’s axiomatic that you can’t solve a problem if you don’t admit it exists—and the best way to admit it exists is to talk ...

Forest fires are on the rise globally. An increase in severe fire weather is largely responsible. By Rebecca Dzombak In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer track the cost of climate change-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example ...

A Microsoft model can make accurate 10-day forecasts quickly, an analysis found. And, it’s designed to predict more than weather. By Rebecca Dzombak Weather forecasters rely on models to help them ...

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first update at ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is narrowing the capabilities and reducing the number of next-generation weather and climate satellites it plans to build and launch in the coming ...

Budget and staffing cuts under President Donald Trump's administration are undermining global efforts to monitor the climate and produce accurate weather forecasts, warns the European Centre for ...