Climate researchers met recently to discuss what information is needed to determine the extent to which human-induced climate change (ex. Pakistani floods, Russian wildfires, etc.) can be blamed for extreme weather events - possibly even straight after they have happened.

An in-depth analysis of ten climate indicators all point to a marked warming over the past three decades, with the most recent decade being the hottest on record, according to the latest of the U.S. National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration's annual "State of the Climate" reports, which was released Wednesday. Reliable global climate record-keeping began in the 1880s.

The United States is in danger of losing its ability to monitor key climate variables from satellites, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.

A proposed "Living Earth Simulator" will mine economic, environmental and health data to use "reality modeling" to create a model of the entire planet in real time by 2022, with "situation rooms" in which global leaders can view and manage crises as they occur.

The world's combined global land and ocean surface temperature made last month the warmest March on record, according to NOAA. Taken separately, average ocean temperatures were the warmest for any March and the global land surface was the fourth warmest for any March on record

A new book, “Hack the Planet”, surveys the science and possibility of geoengineering schemes and suggests in light of the serious consequences of experimenting with the Earth’s climate that scientists come together to develop voluntary guidelines, similar to the successful 1975 Asilomar conference on genetic engineering.

We can forecast a flip of the Earth's magnetic poles only a few decades in advance, and then only with data that is as precise as possible, researchers at Denis Diderot University and colleagues found in computer simulations of the Earth's magnetic dynamo.

The nation’s top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government’s intelligence assets — including spy satellites and other classified sensors — to assess the hidden complexities of environmental change. They seek insights from natural phenomena like clouds and glaciers, deserts and tropical forests.

Scientists and policymakers are considering a range of geoengineering options to address the consequences of climate change, dismayed by the prospects of reaching a political agreement to reduce emissions and unnerved by new findings that indicate that the climate could shift in sudden and unpredictable ways.