Twelve Northwestern students attended the annual Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP29, to conduct research. The delegation presented their findings at a ...

Climate change will continue to have wide-ranging effects on communities across Oregon, depending on where they are, how many people live there, and how much money their local governments have on hand ...

Mathematicians have applied statistical mechanics to climate change detection and attribution for first time. They have shown how to separate the 'signal' of human-made climate change from the 'noise' ...

Golden aspen groves in the Rockies. Orange sassafras slopes along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Scarlet maples dotting New England’s lakeshores. As leaf-peeping season spreads across the U.S. each fall, it ...

With scientists warning that 2024 will likely beat 2023 as the hottest year on record, there is growing acknowledgment that climate change—and especially extreme heat—presents a top threat to global ...

Climate choices aren’t just individual actions. Sometimes actions in groups, like voting, petitions and protests, can have a ...

For all of us concerned about the climate, 2023 was a grim year. One of the biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate change is the impact of clouds. Michael Allen speaks to the physicists ...

As the world's largest unfrozen freshwater resource, groundwater is crucial for life on Earth. Researchers have investigated how global warming is affecting groundwater temperatures and what that ...

Can tarrifs impact climate change? Since coming to power, the new Trump administration has taken active steps to introduce tariffs. One recent step has been enforcing section 232 of the US Trade ...