Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up. This caused rapid global warming, the mass melting of glaciers, and the end of the last ice age.

Early Eocene forest, Wyoming, U.S. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our ...

SERCMAI copy 39088015274426 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries Adopt-a-Book program. Adopted by The PVH Corporate Responsibility Family in honor of Mary Baglivo on June 10, 2021. Buzz about global ...

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 recognized that the climate changes over time ...

Learn how governments and international organizations can lead the fight against climate change. CFR Education aims to build global affairs literacy by providing free, nonpartisan resources and ...

To understand the history of climate change, researchers are digging underneath the ocean floor where organisms and plants have accumulated in sediment over millennia. Maureen Raymo studies this ...

To spread awareness that “climate change isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a human story woven into the fabric of our civilization’s rise and fall,” Georgetown University historian Professor ...

These maps reveal how climate change influences daily local weather, ocean temperatures, and tropical cyclones. Climate Shift Index: Tropical Cyclone Find out how climate change has shaped past and ...