Climate change on exhibit at two Chicago museums

At a museum on the South Side of Chicago, newly mounted photographs and video detail the disappearance, due to rising temperatures, of glaciers that...

Transformative adaptation to climate change

The subject of adaptation to climate change has gone through two major phases already and is now on its third phase.  The first phase was...

'Climate change is real': companies challenge Trump's reversal of policy

Energy Mars Inc, Staples, The Gap and others speak out against Trump’s sweeping executive order that begins to dismantle Obama’s Clean Power Plan <!--><!--><!--><!--> ‘We will continue...

Climate change’s toll on mental health

When people think about climate change, they probably think first about its effects on the environment, and possibly on their physical health. But climate...

Solving the mystery of the Arctic’s green ice

In 2011, researchers observed something that should be impossible — a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice in conditions that should...

Manufacturing, global trade impair health of people with no stake in either

The latest products may bring joy to people around the globe, but academic researchers this week are highlighting the heightened health risks experienced by...

Tackling resilience: Finding order in chaos to help buffer against climate change

A new article aims to provide clarity among scientists, resource managers and planners on what ecological resilience means and how it can be achieved.

11 percent of disappearing groundwater used to grow internationally traded food

Eleven percent of the global non-renewable groundwater drawn up for irrigation goes to produce crops that are then traded on the international market, new...

Oil drillers face an angry mob in Mexico’s guerrilla country.

When an angry mob torched City Hall in the southern Mexican town of Tecpatan last month, it sent a warning flare across a country...

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