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While climate denialism impedes policymaking in both the US and Australia, there are key differences in their political and public cultures.
Thirty years after the Supreme Court ruled that creationism cannot be required in schools, ‘creation science’ is still taught in some schools. What are the implications for climate education?
Why use satellites to study Earth’s climate? Researchers leading a new mission explain how images from space will help them analyze which parts of the Americas soak up the most carbon.
People worry Washington is losing respect for science and even the centuries-old scientific method. Two climate scientists explain how science can be done when talking about the future.
The sun is more powerful today than when we last had similar levels of carbon in the atmosphere.
We need international agreement on a set of Earth’s ‘vital signs’ and how to measure them.
During a Q&A discussion about climate change, Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie said it was four degrees hotter 110,000 years ago. Is that right?
One of Donald Trump’s senior advisers has recommended cutting NASA climate research because the science has become “heavily politicised”. The question is: by whom?
Climate science is now a key part of the agency’s mission.
By the time we hit that temperature, further climate changes will already be locked in and unavoidable.
The new State of the Climate report outlines Australia’s rising temperatures and its regional rainfall declines - and the trends that are locked in for the coming few decades due to greenhouse emissions.
New study changes what we know about the pre-industrial atmosphere – and how we predict future climate change.
New projections suggest the world could warm 3-7 degrees over coming centuries.
The National Park Service’s principal climate scientist explains why the parks are important laboratories for climate change research, and how climate change is altering the parks.
Will 2017 be a ‘bbq summer’? It depends on changes in the jet stream.
More than 150 Australian experts have demanded greater action on climate change from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
If we accept that 2 degrees warming is dangerous this century, we have to accept it is dangerous beyond.
Climate change is happening faster than ecosystems can keep up with, so they’ll need a hand from us.
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C already looks out of reach, so where do we go from here?
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