Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes ...

Ancient humans in northern China endured dramatic climate changes, creating new tools, hunting methods, and strategies to ...

If you take a look at global temperature graphs that span millions or billions of years, you can see that our planet’s temperature has made wild swings. In fact, the Earth used to be completely ...

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...

About three hundred years ago a rural farming community in the Shetland Islands, Britain’s northernmost group of islands, was overwhelmed by windblown sand. The environmental catastrophe was probably ...

Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is glacially slow – isn’t it? This pessimistic narrative doesn’t stack up against evidence ...

Not all climate records have been set recently. The all-time temperature record was set in California’s Death Valley in 1913. Climate deniers might say that global warming should have caused that to ...

At least a handful of interpretive signs—those providing visitors with historical or cultural context—have been removed from ...

Informational signs containing information on climate change, ecology and Native American history have been removed from ...

Acadia is changing, so are we,” read one of the signs. “The rapidly changing climate requires new approaches to restoration.” ...