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Maya Train raises questions about Maya land, people and rights

Inspiring students to pursue science, fight climate change and impact the community

Janyiah, a ninth-grade student at Gary Comer College Prep, started “falling in love with science” three years ago in the South Side school’s proactive STEM

Glacier geologists search for global climate clues to support urgent action now

When he’s not teaching earth science classes and analyzing data at the University of Maine, glacier whisperer Aaron Putnam is trekking into the high Himalayas

COLDEX: The search for Earth’s oldest ice and new climate solutions

Even summer days are cold in the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area, a meteorite-strewn expanse of glacier flanked by mountains at the eastern edge of

Into the unknown: Exploring caves to uncover climate change clues

Nearly 20 years ago, then Ph.D. student Gina Moseley walked into a bar in Bristol to meet fellow members of the University of Bristol Spelæological

Climate change pushes precipitation — and ability to predict it — to its limits

Primed by a drought that has lasted longer than the 1930s Dust Bowl, wildfires scorched over 5 million acres of land in the western United

Melting tropical glaciers threaten freshwater sources while sea ice melt accelerates rising oceans

“Tropical glacier” — the term sounds like an oxymoron and, due to climate change, it might become one. These bodies of ice nestle in the mountain

Climate change continues as a global crisis amid COVID-19—and it’s the greater threat

COVID-19 swept the world, with little regard for anyone who stood in its path. Within weeks, the virus killed thousands, isolated people in their homes