For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

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 ...

President Trump is attempting to replace factual information about American history and the environment with false narratives, leading to censorship of displays and signage about slavery, Native ...

Stephen Hawking spent decades warning that humanity faces a simple choice: spread beyond Earth or risk total extinction. The theoretical physicist argued that threats ranging from artificial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Direct effects of global warming are worsening, while extreme weather events are not. Both have to be properly weighted to assess endangerment.

Gradually increasing the price of fossil fuels is considered a key element of effective climate policy—and yet it remains the ...