Our brain is a complex organ. Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate network, constantly processing signals, enabling us to recall memories or to move our bodies.

A report detailing how climate inaction will consign people born today to a lifetime of weather extremes must awaken a sense ...

Climate change is altering water availability—across the globe, and right on our doorstep. With a new interactive map, users ...

In a field of muddy results, it's among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career.

The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.

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Pope Francis, author of the influential encyclical Laudato Si, has died. Laudato Si, meaning "praise be to you," addresses ...

More should be done to make an effort to mobilize people power to tackle the current generation of environmental crises.

Ruth Spiro is a children’s author. Her new book, “ How to Explain Climate Science to a Grown-up ,” encourages kids to add climate change to that list. In the book, a child teaches a man how burning ...

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Social scientists say writing a letter to loved ones in the future can overcome a critical climate problem: inaction.

The planet is edging close to irreversible change, according to the most comprehensive probability analysis yet of climate ...