For the Old Weather Project, everyday people armed with laptops comb through old maritime logbooks posted on the Internet, gathering raw information for climate researchers

Throughout the world's oceans, forests of kelp—crucial to biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and coastal protection—are under threat from climate change, pollution, and human development. Will they disappear before we fully understand their massive environmental benefits?

Bucking the status quo, Orthodox community rabbis speak out against Trump’s policies

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Marketed as a sustainable protein, farmed salmon generates plastic, nutrient, and chemical pollution that threatens marine ecosystems.

There has been a lack of research and education into the effects of depleted uranium munitions on post-conflict communities in Iraq and Syria, and cleanup efforts by both UN member countries and affected communities have failed.

The full text of the Bulletin Science and Security Board 2017 Doomsday Clock statement, which moved the Clock to two and a half minutes to midnight.

Eight years ago, author David Quammen interviewed scientists about the possibility of a new pandemic. Their prediction: there would indeed be a new disease, likely from the coronavirus family, coming out of a bat, and it would happen in or around a wet market in China. But what was not predictable was how unprepared the world would be.

Water expert and MacArthur “genius” award winner Peter Gleick says we can learn much from watching what happens in South Africa. Biggest lesson: The cheapest source of new water is not actually new water.

In this commentary, Mari Faines considers the effects of colonialism, White supremacy, and racial injustice on nuclear weapons policy.

President Trump has peddled disinformation on the most important issues of the last year; here's a look at where it's dovetailed with armed or violent action by his supporters.

Mario Molina was a brilliant scientist, a tireless advocate for the environment, and an inspiring collaborator. He also was a gracious gentleman and a generous friend.

Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, has been touted as a way to reduce atmospheric CO2. But how realistic is it to build CCS facilities on a scale large enough to combat climate change?

In keeping the hands of the Doomsday Clock at three minutes to midnight, the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board mean to make a clear statement: The world situation remains highly threatening to humanity, and decisive action to reduce the danger posed by nuclear weapons and climate change is urgently required.

Amid a changing climate, more mass evacuations will be necessary. Let’s try to learn from past mistakes.

Something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry.

It’s sometimes forgotten that in March 2013 the head of America’s Pacific Command said the top security threat in the region was global warming. Simon Winchester thinks it’s worth remembering.

How can gift-basket diplomacy be preserved beyond the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit?