In the 1960s, the Soviet climatologist and mathematician Mikhail Budyko set out to investigate the potential future of a planet on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. He started by looking some 600 ...

Josep “Pep” Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project, says he believes countries large and small need to think twice before pledging to collectively plant billions of trees as a ...

A group of the world’s leading climate scientists are warning governments and the livestock industry against adopting an ...

When President Donald Trump talks about climate change, he often recycles one well-known, shaky argument: that doing anything about it will be a financial disaster. After pulling out of the Paris ...

New research tackles harms of learning near data centers and airports, how education can lead to climate action, and more.

A U.N. panel on climate change seems poised to retire RCP 8.5, a scenario in which the world does nothing to curb ...

Smithsonian paleontologist Scott Wing explains a mathematical formula in the online interactive "Prehistoric Climate Change and Why It Matters Today," produced by the ...