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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world’s largest association of earth and space scientists is calling for more transparency and community engagement for climate experiments that would alter the planet’s atmosphere. The American ...

When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect ...

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 ...

And governments would still confront the same physical, engineering, and economic constraints that no treaty can repeal. That ...

Austrian artist Christoph Schwarz's debut feature film follows him living a year without money: "This is my starting point for many projects – I come up with some kind of adventure which I am ...