Researchers used novel methods to safely create and analyze plutonium samples. The approaches could prove influential in future studies of the radioactive material, benefitting research in legacy, national security and nuclear fuels.

Study shows that emissions from trans-Arctic shipping could increase clouds, cooling the atmosphere and surface.

Case studies in six cities of barriers to implementing building energy codes.

Understanding the functional traits of Arctic and alpine tundra plant communities will enable better model projections of how they transform in warmer conditions.

Researchers found sea surface temperature accounts for only 20 percent of extreme precipitation variability along the U.S. West Coast.

Water management activities could reduce both the duration and intensity of agricultural droughts by a factor of about ten in most regions, while they may increase those of hydrological droughts by up to 50 percent.

Improving water conservation in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model's atmosphere component has important implications for projecting sea level change.

Surrounded by the Amazon rainforest, aircraft measurements from the urban plume over Manaus, Brazil, reveal the life cycle of organic aerosol.

With improved cloud microphysics representing observed storm structures, models can better simulate long-lasting storms prone to produce flooding.

New open-source software mimics complex global hydrological models with extraordinary computational efficiency.

Study identifies recurrent patterns of temperature response to energy changes at random locations.

A new method provides a previously unavailable data set that could help improve the representation of shifty shallow cumulus clouds in atmospheric models.

A positive shift in the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and changes in the large-scale hurricane environment are behind the increase in magnitude of rapid intensification.

Researchers zero in on the radiative feedback processes that continue to drive warming in the Arctic.