Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

The reconciliation package currently under consideration in Congress—officially titled the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

Plankton are vital to planetary and climate stability and are therefore important contributors to human well-being.

Our knowledge of future climate change is largely dependent on complex computer simulation models. These models are huge – they are made up of more than 1 million lines of computer code representing ...

Since 2022, RGV has been accepted by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Permafrost Quantity. An ECV is defined as “a physical, ...

H5N1 is the latest evidence that climate change is altering how viruses spread and evolve. It is essential that global public health officials take these dynamics into account.

A movement is afoot to create a set of essential biodiversity variables (EBVs), along the lines of the existing essential climate variables (ECVs). ECVs are datasets that contribute to the ...

It is necessary to assess the proficiency of these GCMs in replicating essential climate variables by comparing their outputs with observed or reanalysis data. Depending upon several factors, such as ...