To spread awareness that “climate change isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a human story woven into the fabric of our civilization’s rise and fall,” Georgetown University historian Professor ...

The Paris Climate Accords were signed on April 22—Earth Day—ten years ago today. According to the United Nations, it was the largest one-day signing of an international agreement in history. These ...

Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes Erin Wunderlich Researcher Ingrid Romero holds a case full of pollen slides at the ...

Last summer, marked by deadly extreme heat and devastating wildfires, was the warmest in at least 2,000 years, according to new research, which analyzed weather data and tree rings to reconstruct a ...

Climate models indicate the anomaly, expected to be one of the most intense in roughly a century and a half, will show its ...

A buried glacier hidden beneath the Canadian Arctic is giving scientists a rare glimpse into Earth’s distant climatic past.

Happy Mother’s Day! Here in Augusta, mid-May weather can be a bit of a wildcard. Let’s take a look back at the climate ...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Intimations of the Planetary -- Part I. The Globe and the Planet -- Part II. The Difficulty of Being Modern -- Part III. Facing the Planetary -- Postscript: ...

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...

Penn History and Sociology of Science assistant professor Melissa Charenko recently published a new book discussing how 20th-century climate researchers used proxies to model ancient climates. The ...