Author: Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate

Understanding, quantifying, and tracking atmospheric methane and emissions is essential for addressing concerns and informing decisions that affect...

Sediments, ice, corals, and trees are just some of the natural storehouses of information that help tell the complicated history of Earth's climate...

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, negative emissions technologies (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will...

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to u...

For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food d...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other U.S. science research agencies operate a fleet of research aircraft and other ai...

Climate change is fundamentally changing ecosystems and their fire conditions, and the 2023 fire season highlighted the urgency of developing and i...

The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our ...

Global climate change is one of America's most significant long-term policy challenges. Human activityespecially the use of fossil fuels, industria...

Addressing climate change is essential and possible, and it offers a host of benefits - from better public health to new economic opportunities. Th...

As the nation's economic activities, security concerns, and stewardship of natural resources become increasingly complex and globally interrelated,...

Across the United States, impacts of climate change are already evident. Heat waves have become more frequent and intense, cold extremes have becom...

As climate change has pushed climate patterns outside of historic norms, the need for detailed projections is growing across all sectors, including...

The Update to the Strategic Plan (USP) is a supplement to the Ten-Year Strategic Plan of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) completed...

Climate change poses many challenges that affect society and the natural world. With these challenges, however, come opportunities to respond. By t...

As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded across the globe. Climate mode...

Our ability to observe and forecast severe weather events has improved markedly over the past few decades. Forecasts of snow and ice storms, hurric...