Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has a very specific meaning to biologists: It refers to ...

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other ...

The Earth receives a continuous influx of energy from the Sun. Some of this energy is absorbed at the Earth’s surface or by the atmosphere, while some is reflected back to space. At the same time, the ...

Dr. Ala Stanford administers a COVID-19 test in Philadelphia. The COVID-19 pandemic dominated the minds of people over the past few years, resulting in reduced attention toward climate change, ...

Climate change has elevated the risk of natural disaster losses, sending real estate insurance premiums soaring. Major commercial real estate trusts and developers have cited climate change as a ...

From England to India, particulate matter in the air runs risks to human health. "These findings identify a previously unknown human exposure route to rubber additives," the authors wrote. We have ...

With President Donald Trump's administration removing climate change language from federal government websites, withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement, ending climate disaster ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...