A panel of experts at a congressional briefing warned that increasingly powerful hurricanes, sea level rise, and other changing aspects of Earth's climate system are posing new challenges to the U.S. military.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) has announced the winners of the 2019 Next Generation Fellowships. The program, which is in its third year, supports graduate students from underrepresented communities in their professional careers as Earth system scientists.

Many of the country’s top solar geoengineering researchers have banded together to form a modeling consortium aimed at identifying gaps in our current understanding, prioritizing research that can fill those gaps, and pooling resources.

A team of scientists has successfully teased out the influence of human-caused climate change on wintertime precipitation over much of the last century, showing that the warming climate has altered wintertime rainfall and snowfall across the Northern Hemisphere.

The same artificial intelligence technique typically used in facial recognition systems could help improve prediction of hailstorms and their severity.