While the Statue of Liberty may not be submerged, low-lying places like Ellis Island could be underwater. By 2100, sea-level ...

The African Humid Period exemplifies the dramatic climate transitions that our planet ... African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 19, 189-211 (2000).

An international team including UNIGE reveals that the Arabian Peninsula desert once hosted a vast lake and rivers, which ...

Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from ...

Multiple climate 'tipping points' are likely to be triggered if global policies stay on their current course, new research shows.

Global boiling? Give me a break. Yes, the climate is warming. We can deal with that. What annoys me is politicians, activists and media pushing hysterical myths. Myth 1: The Arctic will soon be ...

Two days later, Pope Francis clapped back. Francis’ landmark climate change encyclical, “Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home,” wasn’t meant as a response to Trump. But the 184-page ...

Plastic is made from chemicals derived from fossil fuels, the burning of which drive the climate crisis by producing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide and methane.

Jeff Dukes, a senior staff scientist in the Stanford Carnegie Institution for Science, brings attention to climate change in historically conservative states. From rates of carbon sequestration to ...

Extreme weather-related disasters are increasing in frequency around the world. See how climate change affected different ...

This institute is named after the pope’s 2015 encyclical (a letter to bishops outlining church policy) on climate change. Its mission is rooted in the pope’s religiously inspired vision of ...

This past fall, at an event in New York City’s National Museum of the American Indian, a packed room of educators and federal employees applauded the release of a document titled “Climate Literacy: ...