By Emma Conkle and Kimberly Henrickson Dec. 28, 2025 After honing his analytical skills in the finance industry on Wall Street, Vince Cooper now applies his talents to help predict abrupt climate change in a warming world. But that’s not the only superpower he brings to climate science – he credits optimism and resilience for …
By Louise Kim and Jessica Savage Medill Reports, Dec. 15, 2023 Gina Moseley scales mountains and explores remote lands all in the name of understanding how the climate has been changing across hundreds of thousands of years and how that impacts current accelerating change. “It’s really important to understand what the climate’s doing, what …
An alpine forest turns into a desert within a mere 16,000 years – the geologic equivalent of a blink of an eye. The transformation is just one climate mystery waiting to be solved.
Wondering what drives local rainfall? Curious about tipping points for the entire global weather system? To find answers, you’ll have to go through the “lake mafia,” a disparate collection of scientists who study closed lake basins.
