A crushing “spiral of silence” keeps Americans from discussing the threat of climate change, a new study has found. The ...

Earth Day often calls to mind the environmentalists and activists leading the charge for a sustainable planet. But ...

Many national and corporate climate targets seek to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Yet, global warming continues to increase.

Don’t be afraid to think five years down the road, setting clear targets and building a roadmap for the future. By committing ...

The World Meteorological Organization has published its latest report on the State of the Climate in Latin America and the ...

For example, Utah’s Zion National Park has four days annually on average above 92.4 degrees – its 99th percentile temperature ...

As we celebrate Earth Month, we are kicking off a series of retrospectives on National Academies reports and activities ...

The Trump administration plans to scrap a contract for a federal climate assessment used to direct government action on ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula's desert was once shaped by a massive lake and a network of rivers. The Rub’ al-Khali, ...

The vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula was not always an arid landscape. A recent study reveals that this region was once home to a vast lake and river system. These favorable conditions fostered ...

U.S. policymakers need a new strategy to confront the risks of climate change, compete in the global energy transition, and ...

Friederike Otto, 42, is a climate scientist at Imperial College London, where she is best known for pioneering the new field of attribution science, in which researchers calculate in real time how ...