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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anjali Chaudhry is an educator, researcher, and a climate ambassador. As the U.S. retreats from federal climate action—exiting the ...

Giorgio Zampaglione loved his two-hour commute from the town of Mount Shasta into the surrounding northern California forests last summer. The way the light filtered through the trees on the morning ...

With help from Benjamin Storrow and Zack Colman in the U.S., Nicolas Camut and Giorgio Leali in France, Zia Weise in Belgium, Charlie Cooper in the United Kingdom, Mike Blanchfield in Canada, and ...

Most people still picture climate migration as something that happens in other countries, or at best, as a vague future problem. The reality is already quite different. Columbia University noted in ...

The Biden administration just announced an aggressive target for the US to cut its planet-warming pollution over the next decade – a goal that will all but assuredly be reversed by President-elect ...

This month's horrific flooding in Texas Hill Country, which killed at least 135 people when the Guadalupe River rose to unprecedented heights — at unprecedented speed — is the latest example of ...

Climate change is likely to drive rodent-borne arenaviruses into parts of South America that have never faced these diseases, putting new communities of people at risk, finds a study from the ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. iorgio Zampaglione loved his two-hour commute from the town of Mount Shasta into the surrounding northern ...

If you've been following recent debates about health, you've been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs—but much less about one of the greatest threats ...

Extreme storms and other natural disasters are increasingly costly, with nearly as many events last year as in all of the 1980s. Companies consider climate risks when deciding where to locate or ...