For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...
The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...
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?
More extreme weather and shifting growing seasons are putting pressure on school meal programs, which serve nearly half a billion children worldwide. Jennifer Burney, a professor of Earth system ...
Deep in the Arctic north, drained peatlands—once massive carbon vaults built over thousands of years—are quietly leaking ...
UN chief Guterres urges "less hype, less fear" on AI, announcing a new expert panel to ensure human control becomes a technical reality.
In the past, climate change denial was largely focused on the first three facts (i.e., the science of climate change). However, denial of these facts has become more and more untenable in light of the ...
The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...
Researchers found that regularly following the exercise regimen for a year led to participants’ brains appearing nearly a ...
Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social ...
One possible reason for these differences is that distinct disciplines are trained to notice different things. Like photographers, we tend to focus on what our field puts in the frame. Economists ...