In the past, climate change denial was largely focused on the first three facts (i.e., the science of climate change). However, denial of these facts has become more and more untenable in light of the ...

November 29 is an important day in the history of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It’s also an important day in the history of climate science. You’ve probably heard of the IPCC. It was ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. First up, the European Union’s ...

Science should not be a partisan game, and it’s wrong to call out partisanship from just one direction, writes Bjorn Lomborg. iStock / Getty Images Green activists accuse the Trump administration of ...

Mountains worldwide are experiencing climate change more intensely than lowland areas, with potentially devastating consequences for billions of people who live in and/or depend on these regions, ...

Click the downloadable graphic: What is attribution science? Humans have increased Earth’s temperature, mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and methane gas. The resulting heat-trapping ...

For the last 20 years, Bruce Appelgate has helped send America’s scientists out to sea. From a port in San Diego, the academic maritime expert oversees more than a dozen federal and university ...

Now that 2025 is coming to a close—and good riddance, I say—it’s time to look back and reflect on the carnage. One of the defining themes of the past 11 months, and certainly one most pertinent to the ...

When families decide where to buy a home, when cities approve new development, or when governments decide where to invest billions in resilience, they increasingly turn to climate-risk scores for ...

Two things are true at once — First, humans influence the climate system, presenting risks that merit policy attention. Second, climate research, broadly construed, is a deeply politicized endeavor, ...