Congress has acted to avoid a government shutdown, the House Science Committee held a hearing on forecasting extreme weather events in a changing climate, and the Senate approved its version of a bill to fund the federal science agencies.

Researchers at CU Boulder and NCAR have been awarded $3 million in funding from NSF to study the changing climate and rivers of Alaska and western Canada.

NCAR has started to generate high-resolution experimental, 48-hour forecasts of air pollutants across the contiguous United States.

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.

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.