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For all its urgency in the real world, climate change is largely absent from the stories shaping contemporary culture, according to new research by scholars at Rice University and Colby College. “To ...

New research has revealed more examples of the National Cattlemen’s Association’s efforts to downplay and deny the industry’s ...

In Maine, as everywhere else in the country, one of this year’s biggest electoral issues is the cost of energy. The price of ...

From sea level rise adaptations to international microplastics treaties, UC Berkeley researchers are at the forefront of addressing the existential environmental issues of our time. Now, a new ...

A new study by the University of Oldenburg and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) published in Population and Environment shows that the birth of a child has little impact on parents' environmental and ...

For more than 60 years, America’s response to global climate change has been like a hot potato passed from the presidency to ...

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Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia. Since at least the fourth century BC, the ancient Greeks and Romans recognised that the climate changes over time ...