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 ...

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 ...

Climate-induced weather disasters include record wildfires in the West, record-setting heat waves and droughts, and aggressive hurricanes. Here, smoke plumes and hurricane clouds are visible at once.

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 ...

As the planet warms, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, a massive global study shows that species turnover has slowed by about one-third since the 1970s. Nature’s constant ...

Journalists discussed localizing climate change stories at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference. Reporters based in Arizona, Wisconsin and Florida shared region-specific climate ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University (THE CONVERSATION) Scientists are trained to be ...