An apocalyptic future is materializing that threatens human civilization and all life on the planet...

Tourism Queensland - Nelson Hall

Malcolm Turnbull doubles Labor's previously announced policy.

Supply chains now crisscross the globe, and most start where it's hottest...

The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, Highland Region, Scotland, highlighted by recent snowfall. (Credit: Richard Crowest/CC BY-SA 3.0)

It’s inevitable: as science progresses, controversy happens. But sometimes, the public sees controversy where none exists. How to remedy that?

John H. Chafee, the late Republican senator from Rhode Island. He died in 1999. (Ray Lustig/The Washington Post)

It was such a different time — and yet, the message was so similar...

Photograph by Erik Jacobs/The New York Times/Redux

Bad science has a pattern, and helping people recognize the pattern arms them to come to more scientific beliefs themselves...

Imagine a futuristic landscape where gleaming silver spires lined with effervescent lights rise like fabricated flowers from a green, expansive plain, stretching up toward the sun...

A WORKER AT A PALM OIL PLANTATION HANDLES NEWLY HARVESTED FRUITS, IN AGUSAN DEL SUR PROVINCE, SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES (PHOTO: ROMEO RANOCO/REUTERS)

An online map app could help companies, conservation groups, and communities save forests before they are razed or burned for palm oil plantations...

Herds of wildebeest after crossing a river in Kenya on Sept. 4, 2015. (Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images)

It’s no surprise that populations living in the Arctic — whether human, animal or otherwise — have become the poster children for global warming’s terrible consequences...

How much methane is emitted from oil and gas sites like this one in Williston, N.D., is a matter of fierce scientific debate. Credit: Reuters

Advocacy group claims a former EPA science adviser failed to acknowledge technical flaws in his industry-funded studies of methane emissions from oil and gas sites...

A colony of king penguins and an elephant seal are pictured in 2007 on Possession Island in the Crozet archipelago in the Austral seas. (Marcel Mochet/AFP/Getty Images)

Scientists know Antarctica is melting, and they’re pretty confident that for the most part, the heat isn’t coming from above — but rather, from below...

Bleached coral, like this in New Caledonia, has become a global phenomenon and a stark indicator of the impact of unabated climate change. Corals are crucial ocean nurseries, nurturing up to 25 percent of all marine species. Credit: XL Catlin Seaview Survey/March 2016

Warm ocean temperatures are taking an unprecedented toll on reefs in all the world's tropical oceans, including in areas not affected by previous bleaching events...

(National Snow and Ice Data Center.)

The 2016 race downward in Arctic sea ice continued in May with a dramatic new record...

For advocates of climate change action, communication on the issue has often meant “finding the right message” that will spur their audience to action and convince skeptics to change their minds...