Environmental phenomena and their consequences can disrupt social structures and destabilize political systems. An ...

Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.

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

From changing seasons to evolving traveler priorities, climate change is already influencing travel planning, destinations, ...

The 2025 hurricane season was a study in contrasts. In one way, it felt very quiet in the United States. No storms made landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 2015. And, for about three weeks ...

Majorities in all but three countries – Israel, Nigeria and the U.S. – see climate change as a major threat. Around eight-in-ten hold this view in Argentina, Brazil, France, Japan and South Korea.

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 ...

Here in Arizona, 2025 was our second hottest year on record — with 122 days above 100 degrees and higher nighttime and winter ...

The unseasonably warm water that helped Hurricane Melissa grow into a Category 5 storm before it made landfall in Jamaica is likely to remain, making historically strong storms like Melissa ...