In an extreme environmental and political climate in remote Colombia, one maverick village has relied on homegrown inventions to survive. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said exempting oil drilling ...

Today's sea level rise is significant enough to slow the rotation of the planet by just over a millisecond per century.

As the Trump administration pressures agencies to avoid “woke” language, researchers are reworking how they describe their ...

An aerial image shows a part of Turkana South Island in Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, in northern Kenya.AFP— ...

A case being heard in the US Supreme Court is pivotal to a longtime push by fossil fuel firms to prevent state courts considering the industry's role in the climate crisis A US Supreme Court case, ...

After Republican criticism, a group that offers professional resources to judges withdrew a climate science chapter from its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. By Karen Zraick In a new attack on ...

The Earth’s climate system is now “out of balance,” according to a new global report — with scientists warning that a key ...

On Friday, a body that advises US judges revised the document it created to help judges grapple with scientific issues. The move came after a group of Republican state attorneys general wrote a letter ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. First up, the Trump administration ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Nearly a foot of snow has melted. The deep freeze that sent temperatures across the region plummeting to below zero has warmed to a balmy 55 degrees on a sunny February day. As Matt ...

Climate change can be explained by six simple facts: It’s real! It’s us! Experts agree! It’s bad! Others care! There’s hope! Present day climate change denial instead targets the remaining three facts ...