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The ocean is full of invisible workers. Trillions of microbes quietly break down carbon-containing organic matter, which ...

Climate modeling is one of the most demanding intellectual exercises humans have ever attempted. Scientists are essentially ...

Ocean microbes control Earth's carbon cycle. Scientists found a simpler way to understand how these tiny organisms shape our ...

While global warming is still a threat, the decision to back away from a worst-case outlook raises questions about whether ...

With unique monsoon, mesoscale and submesoscale processes, the Indian Ocean offers critical insights and new challenges to ...

For over five decades, scientists have been striving to predict Earth's future climate. The progress has been remarkable, yet the task is daunting. As global warming accelerates, our ability to ...

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 ...

Climate scientists are increasingly studying the possibility of an Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) ...