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 ...

Over the course of our planet's long history, Earth's climate has seen some dramatic shifts-and it will only continue to change. Our world is warming quickly due to large amounts of greenhouse gases ...

Last summer, marked by deadly extreme heat and devastating wildfires, was the warmest in at least 2,000 years, according to new research, which analyzed weather data and tree rings to reconstruct a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Global CO2 levels have increased from 280 parts per million in Colonial times to 422.8 ppm in 2024. Editor at Large The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of ...

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 ...

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.” ...