This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Lately, climate change has imposed itself on ...

Like shrewd detectives, a team of Earth scientists ventured on a thought experiment to detect the earliest human fingerprint on climate change. They geared up with scientific theories, modern ...

In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on Tuesday proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human ...

The view that human activities are likely responsible for most of the observed increase in global mean temperature ("global warming") since the mid-20th century is probably a correct reflection of ...