Climate Change
Across AMS
NCAR Stories: A Shared Hub of Science Under Threat
With the Trump administration working to “dismantle” it as a source of “climate alarmism,” the future of the National Science...
From AMS Journals
AMS Science Preview: Mississippi River, Ocean Carbon Storage, Gender and Floods
Research published in "early online" format in journals of the American Meteorological society discusses how gender affects flood mortality, U.S. ranchers and climate change, underestimations of Southern Ocean carbon uptake, terrain and tornadoes, increasing atmospheric rivers, and the future of Mississippi River water.
From AMS Journals
AMS Science Preview: Hurricane Slowdown, School Snow Days
Recent research published in AMS journals highlights topics including an increase in tropical cyclone near-shore "rapid slowdown" events, decreasing Northern Hemisphere snow cover, school bus cancellations, and one reason tornadoes may be shifting further southeast.
Conference Spotlight
Heat Safety: Protecting the Young, the Old, and the Tuba Player
How can an already hot city like Houston, Texas, cope with the growing heat-safety challenges of urbanization and climate change?
Perspectives
Caving In to Climate Change?
In the face of climate change, the world’s peoples and the United States are advancing in some areas, stalled out in others … but not caving in.
Science Spotlights
Caving In to Climate Change
To learn more about the Arctic climate millions of years ago, a research team journeyed to a remote location in Greenland.
AMS Updates
Be There: The Richard Stolarski Symposium
A symposium at the 106th AMS Annual Meeting will honor the contributions of Rich Stolarski, whose research has been vital to efforts to protect the ozone layer.
AMS Updates
Be There: The First Annual Disaster and Emergency Management Symposium
The 2026 AMS Annual Meeting will host the First Annual Disaster and Emergency Management Symposium, as a changing climate and growing global population bring disasters into ever greater focus.
Science Spotlights
Migrating Droughts
“Climate doesn’t respect national borders. We’re more interconnected than we thought.” — Enrique Vivoni of Arizona State University, on new...
Papers of Note
Amplified Land-Lake Thermal Contrast May Change Local Weather in a Warmer Climate
A summary of “Global Land-Lake Thermal Contrast in a Warming World,” by Heng Lyu (Yale, and Nanjing University of Information...
