Imagine a world where the polar ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising and the atmosphere is stuffed with about 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Sound familiar? It should. We’re living it ...

The West Coast drinks from the wind. When westerly gales carry humid air from the Pacific Ocean into the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade mountain ranges, the West turns green, orchards blossom, and ...

For researchers seeking to understand the effects of climate change on the weather of the North American Southwest, the answer lies in traveling millions of years back in time on wings of wax—leaf wax ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Western Turkey forms the eastern part of the Aegean extensional province. In the 1980s it was accepted that vertical crustal motions in this region are caused solely by this active normal faulting, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

In May 2013, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere hit a previously unthinkable milestone. For the first time in human history, the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's air reached ...

New research has found that the release of forest emissions and smoke from wildfires had a far greater impact on global warming than carbon dioxide 3 million years ago. Dynamic atmospheric chemistry ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. The West Coast drinks from the wind. When westerly gales carry humid air from ...