Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

Humanity's oldest and longest-running climate experiment, the International Polar Year (IPY), will run for the fifth time in ...

The cleanest chamber ever built is allowing researchers at CERN to track the microscopic processes governing cloud formation, finds Matthew Chalmers Clean climate The CLOUD experiment is sensitive to ...

Governments and philanthropists are quietly assembling one of the most audacious climate projects yet: a roughly $75 million push to see whether humanity can cool a heating planet by reflecting a ...

Woods Hole researchers, Adam Subhas (left) and Chris Murray, conducted a series of lab experiments earlier this year to test the impact of an alkaline substance, known as sodium hydroxide, on copepods ...

Globally, the world’s forests absorb around 7.6 billion tonnes of CO2 per year, once emissions from forest fires, deforestation and other disturbances are accounted for. Temperate forests, such as ...

Earth system models (ESMs) integrate the interactions of atmosphere, ocean, land, ice, and biosphere to estimate the state of regional and global climate under a wide variety of conditions. A model ...

When it comes to climate change, to invoke one of Al Gore’s favorite sayings, the biggest challenge is not what we don’t know, but what we know for sure but just isn’t so. Two new studies show that ...

Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels and transforming the oceans. Even if countries ...

Washington, D.C., August 25, 2011 — The long-anticipated CERN study of the impact of cosmic rays on formation of clouds in the atmosphere, published today in Nature, should prompt a major revision of ...