Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up. This caused rapid global warming, the mass melting of glaciers, and the end of the last ice age.

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...

While Earth’s climate has changed many times in history, there is unequivocal scientific consensus that our world is now heating up at an unprecedented pace, driven by human activities such as the ...

Rice has always been a heat-loving plant, at home in the warm, wet landscapes of Asia. It spread with the first farmers, fed ...

Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia. Since at least the fourth century BC, the ancient Greeks and Romans recognised that the climate changes over time ...

An environmental lobbyist and activist, he was a pivotal figure in drawing public attention and political support to the ...

To spread awareness that “climate change isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a human story woven into the fabric of our civilization’s rise and fall,” Georgetown University historian Professor ...

The Paris Climate Accords were signed on April 22—Earth Day—ten years ago today. According to the United Nations, it was the largest one-day signing of an international agreement in history. These ...

A new report from the American Academy of Microbiology examines how attribution science is measuring the infectious disease burden caused by climate change.