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 ...

A new study that explores ancient temperatures and rainfall patterns in the tropical Andes of South America has revealed how 16,000 years of climate history in this part of the world was driven by ...

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 ...

California and Texas textbooks have their differences when it comes to teaching teenagers about American history and the way that subjects like race, gender, and immigration weave through it. But a ...

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: ...

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Secrets of the Earth’s past climate locked in a three-kilometre long Antarctic ice core are revealed this week in the journal Nature. The core from Dome C, high on East Antarctica’s plateau, contains ...

As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures into context and asking: When was it ever this hot before? Globally, 2023 has seen some of ...

Until recently, civilization (as a whole) had never endured severe climate change at global scale. Individual cultures, on the other hand, have confronted regional climate shifts time and again, and ...

The five tents sitting on the white expanse of the Clark Glacier look more like a winter camping site than a scientific field camp. Skis stick out of the snow. A pot on the propane stove holds melted ...

Growing up in Buffalo, N.Y., Justin Shapiro was fascinated by key questions that connect the past to the present and future. “I started to consider questions like, how does a city like Buffalo – with ...