This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views of climate change, the environment and related topics. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and ...

Lily Carey joins The News & Observer after working in Baltimore and Chicago.

There is no question that the current global temperature increase is human-caused. Global warming has long since emerged as the dominant signal amid natural climate fluctuations. However, identifying ...

When social media arrived on the scene, there were high hopes that they would improve—or even "democratize"—communication about climate change by, for instance, lowering access barriers, creating a ...

New study finds snow droughts could be more than four times as frequent than before the industrial revolution. The post ...

A hosepipe ban succeeds where abstract messaging often fails, because it turns a distant risk into a visible, felt experience.

The intensifying impacts of climate change on agricultural systems represent one of the most pressing interdisciplinary ...

Climate change and emerging environmental pollutants are increasingly recognized as critical determinants of mental health ...

Recently, a number of new studies and analyses have been published indicating what readers of CCW have long known: recent climate conditions are not historically unusual. An examination of long-term ...

Climate change risk perception refers to how individuals and communities interpret the likelihood and severity of climate-related threats. It is shaped by cognitive factors such as knowledge and ...

Effective messages aimed at conservatives can appeal to national security, moral issues of purity and religious beliefs in ...