Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

In the fight against the climate crisis, countries are pinning great hope in reforestation projects. In a new study, ETH ...

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected ...

Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can ...

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world’s largest ...

The ICON model can be used for weather forecasting as well as climate predictions and long-term projections. So far, however, the different applications have been developed separately. An initiative ...

Climate scientists are confronting a hard truth: some of the most widely used models are struggling to keep up with the pace and texture of real‑world warming. The physics at their core remains sound, ...

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

Climate models have been the basis for concern about climate change for more than 35 years. The US government, the United Nations, and organizations across the world have used model projections to ...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now ...

When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially ...