Climate change is the long-term shift in the Earth's average temperatures and weather conditions. The world has been warming ...

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

Carbon sustains life—but excess emissions are driving climate change. WWF is working to restore balance and protect our ...

In her TIME Earth Award speech, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson urges us to replace passive hope with decisive, science-driven ...

Climate change has become “that” topic – like evolution of species, plate tectonics, or AI – where the public has heard so ...

Advancements in technology are allowing researchers to determine the extent to which climate change contributed to some extreme weather events.

Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes Erin Wunderlich Researcher Ingrid Romero holds a case full of pollen slides at the ...

According to a Newsweek article, a “study has highlighted the speed at which U.S. cities along the East Coast are sinking as sea levels continue to rise … . This subsidence is largely a result of ...

2024 may have been Earth's hottest year in at least 125,000 years, according to a grim climate report published Wednesday (Oct. 29) that describes our world as "on the brink" and warns its "vital ...

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

Early Eocene forest, Wyoming, U.S. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our ...