An AI agent called Zephyrus converts plain-language questions into code to analyze real weather datasets and forecast models ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The second annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, which is led by the University of Leeds, reveals that human-induced warming has risen to 1.19 °C over the past decade (2014-2023)—an ...

Forests play a central role in the global carbon cycle as trees store carbon in their trunks, branches, roots and leaves. However, climate change and human activities can change the ability of forests ...

Dead mangroves are seen partly submerged in seawater amid rising tides on August 12, 2025 in Hagonoy, Philippines. In the Philippines’ coastal communities, the water has been rising for years—a slow, ...

Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. Planet-warming ...