Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies? The Earth system is a vast ...

When it comes to distinguishing between weather and climate, weather generally covers short and specific timeframes and locations, while climate focuses on trends and statistical ups and downs over ...

Andy Hogg works for ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator, based at the Australian National University. He receives funding for ACCESS-NRI from the Department of Education through the National ...

Analyzing NOAA's billion-dollar weather disaster database, a UChicago-led study projects sharply rising costs driven by ...

Omid Ghasemi receives funding from the Australian Academy of Science. He was a member of the TISP consortium and a co-author of the dataset used in this study. Will firsthand experience of these ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Billion-Dollar Disasters January - June 2025 The future of this database of the most costly U.S. weather and climate disasters was uncertain after the National Oceanic ...

Climate Central has finalized its analysis of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters that impacted the U.S. between January and December of 2025. In 2025 there were 23 weather and climate ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ attitudes toward and experiences with extreme weather. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,085 U.S. adults from April 28 to May 4, 2025.