Uncertainties in greenhouse gas emissions estimates for petrochemical production have lacked quantification globally, impacting emissions reporting and decarbonization policymaking. Here we analyze ...

The latest climate models project widely varying magnitudes of future extreme precipitation changes, thus impeding effective adaptation planning. Many observational constraints have been proposed to ...

The Committee on Risk-Based Analyses for Flood Damage Reduction embarked upon this study assuming that it would produce a technical report regarding the application of risk analysis within the Corps ...

Managing diagnostic error depends on how this uncertainty is handled within the system. Methods such as out-of-distribution ...

President Joe Biden’s signature climate change law passed Congress by the narrowest of margins, without a single Republican in favor. GOP leaders have attacked the bill and promised to repeal it. Yet ...

In the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, it’s become a regular assumption that we (meaning scientists, healthcare professionals, and science and health communicators) need to communicate uncertainty ...

The amount of pessimism, uncertainty and disconnect employees experience in the workplace is “reaching critical levels, endangering employee well-being and undermining productivity,” according to ...

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