Rapid changes in climate in the polar regions are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees of severity at all ecosystem levels. Even larger changes and more significant ...

As the planet warms, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, a massive global study shows that species turnover has slowed by about one-third since the 1970s. Nature’s constant ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. As climate change accelerates, understanding the ...

Straight, professor of anthropology, has worked and conducted research with the Samburu people, a pastoralist community in Northern Kenya since the early 1990s. In 2009, while doing fieldwork for a ...

Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change is an updated look at the issue of abrupt climate change and its potential impacts. This study differs from previous treatments of abrupt changes by focusing on abrupt ...

How will different global warming scenarios impact your business in the future? This question is becoming increasingly relevant across the globe. Climate change scenarios were once terms used only in ...

In 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture created a network of “climate hubs” to understand how climate change affects ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

The McCloud River runs through the ancestral lands of the Winnemen Wintu Tribe. About 4,800 acres of "Indian allotments" were taken without compensation after construction of Shasta Dam. (Black ...

Journalists discussed localizing climate change stories at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference. Reporters based in Arizona, Wisconsin and Florida shared region-specific climate ...