4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (440+ words) And a low snowpack, crucially, spells trouble for water resources. Lake Mead just broke records by reaching its lowest level ever recorded. And the hot, dry season is when agriculture, which sucks up the most water, comes online. In the…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (289+ words) Why would the US threaten scientists who study the safety of AI and social media at a time when their expertise is in high demand worldwide? According to the State Department, these policies protect Americans from “encroachments” that “undermine the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (554+ words) Even if you have never been to L.A., you probably have seen the L.A. River. It is that wide concrete trench that Hollywood loves to film: drag races, chase scenes, countless commercials shot on the bare slab… But it’s strange. This river…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (533+ words) The images of these fires are stunning, their scale terrifying, the human toll enormous already and mounting. And while the proximate causes of the fires, the types of vegetation burning, and nearby settlements differ greatly, the abnormal climatic conditions looming…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (250+ words) These events also illustrate a broader challenge. As the climate warms, households are increasingly relying on cooling to stay safe while electricity costs continue to rise. In other words, the need for cooling and the cost of cooling are increasing…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (520+ words) As I mentioned in my last blog, El Niño and fossil fuel-driven climate change together make a terrible team. While El Niño is a natural cycle in Earth’s climate system, fossil fuel-driven climate change is not. When you combine an…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (517+ words) Weatherwise, 2026’s warm season has been one for the record books in many parts of the Midwest. A seemingly endless barrage of severe and, at times, deadly thunderstorms and tornados have wreaked havoc on homes and businesses, hundreds of thousands…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (227+ words) AAS: California is on the front lines of climate change, with extreme weather intensified by fossil fuel use and weather whiplash causing frequent drought conditions. How can science and scientists support rural California communities, like Allensworth, incorporating resilience into their…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (727+ words) In yet another year defined by record breaking weather events, attribution science can play an important role in articulating how climate change is both contributing to and worsening extremes. Attribution science includes four interrelated subfields—trend, source, impact, and extreme…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (523+ words) Attribution science utilizes a suite of tools to understand these connections: earth observations, statistical methods, emissions data, and climate models. Climate models are a central tool of attribution science through their ability to develop modeled counterfactuals—that is, simulations of…...