Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have ...

A planetary perspective on the relationship between life and energy, and the emergence of a life form whose influence extends ...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds.

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is.

These phenomena are erratic. They interact at every scale and manifest as weather, from clear sunny days to blustery blizzards and the anomalous events — from hurricanes and polar vortices to ...

Katherine Bourzac is a science journalist based in San Francisco. Her coverage of microbiology, physics, chemistry and the environment has appeared in Nature, Scientific American and MIT ...

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ...