Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate-induced weather disasters include record wildfires in the West, record-setting heat waves and droughts, and aggressive ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Salmon sharks are recognized by their giant eyes, white spotted belly, dark grey coloring, and torpedo-like shape, Port Fidalgo, ...

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 ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies?

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

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University (THE CONVERSATION) Scientists are trained to be ...