Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and ...

About six-in-ten Americans say countries around the world, including the U.S., will not do enough to avoid the worst effects ...

Rapid changes in climate in the polar regions are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees of severity at all ecosystem levels. Even larger changes and more significant ...

Straight, professor of anthropology, has worked and conducted research with the Samburu people, a pastoralist community in Northern Kenya since the early 1990s. In 2009, while doing fieldwork for a ...

How will different global warming scenarios impact your business in the future? This question is becoming increasingly relevant across the globe. Climate change scenarios were once terms used only in ...

Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change is an updated look at the issue of abrupt climate change and its potential impacts. This study differs from previous treatments of abrupt changes by focusing on abrupt ...

On a hot afternoon in California wine country, the sun can do more than warm a vineyard. It can scorch it. When temperatures ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Salmon sharks are recognized by their giant eyes, white spotted belly, dark grey coloring, and torpedo-like shape, Port Fidalgo, ...

“It’s not going to affect us” is what I usually hear from my friends and classmates whenever the topic of climate change comes up. This apathy towards climate change, in my opinion, is the exact ...

A new study in Nature Communications finds a critical climate tipping point in Tibetan permafrost ecosystems. Warming of 2–4 ...

Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and ...