This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views of climate change, the environment and related topics. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and ...

Communities across the world are facing two worsening crises: a climate crisis and a care crisis. The evidence and urgency on the climate crisis has been expertly illustrated by the Intergovernmental ...

A new report from the National Academies provides a comprehensive assessment of the current capabilities of extreme event ...

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Humans can’t ignore the natural world. We rely on ecosystems—diverse and interconnected communities of living things and the environments they inhabit—for our food, livelihoods, and shelter. Even if ...

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When former Vice President Al Gore launched the movie An Inconvenient Truth in 2006 to explain the science behind climate change to the American public, surveys showed that many Americans didn’t ...

Long before modern humans appeared in Africa about 300,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a crisis that almost ended the lineage entirely. A groundbreaking study has revealed that between 930,000 and ...