Most ecologists once believed that healthy ecosystems are naturally stable, with a low turnover of species. Left to ...
Use and share Climate Central’s latest resources covering key facts about the causes and impacts of climate change, as well ...
Human activities and climate change are intensifying environmental events, worsening respiratory health issues like asthma and allergies. Extreme weather events increase exposure to pollutants and ...
The agency revamped its webpages to feature natural causes of rising temperatures such as the Earth’s orbit. EPA has scrubbed references to people’s contribution to rising temperatures from some of ...
But new research suggests a new player is making an impact: us. By studying foraminifera, tiny single-celled marine organisms that leave behind fossil shells, a team of researchers from the University ...
According to Roy Scranton, director of the University of Notre Dame's Environmental Humanities Initiative, the biggest problem we face with climate change isn't excessive carbon emissions or energy ...
The Qinghai-Tibet plateau (QTP) is the largest and highest plateau in the world, and is an important center for biodiversity that houses an array of high-elevation ecosystems. Despite its importance, ...
The impacts of human activity and climate change are coalescing to make coastal lagoons saltier, changing the microbial life they support and the function they play in their ecosystems, according to ...
The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to human-caused climate change from its website - tweaking some pages to focus on the “natural processes” driving climate change and wiping ...
A Jan. 29 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows heat maps of the U.S. and makes a series of claims about climate and weather. "Global cooling was real from 1944 to 1982," reads text in the ...