After analyzing 385 studies related to coastal areas and sea level rise, scientists found a significant discrepancy between ...

In terms of modeling, Middle Earth was a little easier. Tolkien essentially wanted it to be a mythical version of Earth at ...

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

OlmoEarth Studio, the Allen Institute for AI’s new workspace for building and fine-tuning environmental AI models. The interface lets users choose base maps, tag locations, and manage field data for ...

If you ask environmentalists about artificial intelligence, they will likely say its biggest drawback involves energy use. One AI research company estimates that querying a service like ChatGPT or ...

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 ...

Ice cores, tree rings, and satellite data converge on a striking truth: Earth’s rapid changes today are unlike anything seen in human history. When most people hear the term Earth science, they think ...

A developing pyrocumulonimbus cloud above Oregon's Gulch Fire, part of the Beaver Complex Fire, in 2014. On September 5, 2020, California’s Creek Fire grew so severe that it began producing it’s own ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

The global water cycle describes the circulation of water—a vital and dynamic substance—in its liquid, solid, and vapor phases as it moves through the atmosphere, the land, and the rivers, lakes, and ...