Weather

Researchers found local experiences and temperatures drive belief or non-belief in climate change.

At century's end, the number of summertime storms that produce extreme downpours could increase by more than 400 percent across parts of the United States. 

Though storm intensity is expected to increase over today’s levels, the predicted reduction in storm size may alleviate some fears of widespread severe flooding in the future.

The Sahara Desert was once covered in grassland that received plenty of rainfall, but shifts in weather patterns abruptly transformed the region into some of the driest land on Earth. 

Global temperatures like 2015 will by normal by 2030, based on the current greenhouse gas emissions trajectory. 

Researchers studied storm development from the Pliocene era, roughly three million years ago, because it was the last time Earth had as much carbon dioxide as it does now.

Areas of the Arctic play a larger role than previously thought in the global nitrogen cycle—the process responsible for keeping a critical element necessary for life flowing between the atmosphere, the land and oceans.