climate science
Trump’s Speech Was Riddled With Lies and Inaccuracies About Fossil Fuels
A fact-check of Trump’s economic policy changes shows a speech riddled with lies and inaccuracies.
Currents Are the Secret to an Antarctic Climate Change Mystery
But just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not happening.
We’re Halfway to Global Warming’s 'Dangerous Limit'
We're blowing past another major climate milestone. And it isn't a good one.
Bill Nye Explains Why Climate Change Is Making Miami Sink into the Atlantic
“Who wants to go to Miami Beach when it’s the Miami Wetland or the Miami Shin-Deep?”
Air Pollution Could Actually Save Arctic Sea Ice. But Should We Use It?
Some types of pollution, it turns out, could actually save some of the sea ice that other types of pollution are melting.
Behind Patricia: How Climate Change Is Fueling the Strongest Storm Ever Recorded
“It is an indicator of what the future looks like.”
The Speaker of the Most Anti-Science Congress in History is Quitting
Who hates science more, John Boehner or whoever replaces him?
The Wettest Place in North America Is Burning
Extreme drought is causing Canada’s only rainforest to dry up, and now it's on fire.
The World's Ears and Nose: This Monitoring System Detects Nuclear Threats
It's been collecting data on the Earth since 1997 and has been put to all kinds of other uses ever since.
Meet the 'Merchants of Doubt' Who Sow Confusion about Tobacco Smoke and Climate Change
Climate change deniers have borrowed a page from efforts to sow confusion about the link between nicotine and cancer, the hole in the Ozone Layer, and other efforts to protect human health and the environment.
NASA Video Shows How Dust from the Sahara Fertilizes the Amazon
About 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust — enough to fill more than 100,000 semi trucks — makes it to the Amazon forest floor each year, bringing with it an estimated 22,000 tons of phosphorous.
Here's What Burning Fossil Fuels Is Doing to the World's Oceans
New satellite imagery will help scientists better analyze the world's acidifying oceans, which are absorbing about 25 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuel burning.