Global Warming
The Ozone Problem is Back – And Worse Than Ever
James Anderson, the winner of a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award, has discovered the alarming link between climate change and ozone loss
December 2012 |
By Sharon Begley
An Astronomer’s Solution to Global Warming
The technology developed for telescopes, it turns out, can harness solar power
February 03, 2012 |
By Alaina G. Levine
Building a Better World With Green Cement
With an eye on climate change, a British startup creates a new form of the ancient building material
December 2011 |
By Michael Rosenwald
America’s First Great Global Warming Debate
Thomas Jefferson and Noah Webster argue over conventional wisdom that lasted thousands of years
July 15, 2011 |
By Joshua Kendall
Rising Seas Endanger Wetland Wildlife
For scientists in a remote corner of coastal North Carolina, ignoring global warming is not an option
August 2010 |
By Abigail Tucker
Barrow, Alaska: Ground Zero for Climate Change
Scientists converge on the northernmost city in the United States to study global warming's dramatic consequences
March 2010 |
By Bob Reiss
The Political History of Cap and Trade
How an unlikely mix of environmentalists and free-market conservatives hammered out the strategy known as cap-and-trade
August 2009 |
By Richard Conniff
Day 1: A Geological Trip Back in Time
Smithsonian Secretary Clough flies to Wyoming to learn about a period of intense global warming that occurred 55 million years ago
July 23, 2009 |
By G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Wallace Broecker Geochemist, Palisades, New York
How to stop global warming? CO2 "scrubbers," a new book says
June 2008 |
By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Mountain Messengers
Scientists scale peaks and study plants to understand the impact of warming
January 28, 2008 |
By Anne Sasso
Interview: Steven Amstrup
A new study spotlights the plight of the polar bear, but there's still time to help the beloved creature
November 2007 |
By Laura Helmuth
Teaming up with Thoreau
One hundred fifty years after the publication of Walden, Henry David Thoreau is helping scientists monitor global warming
October 2007 |
By Michelle Nijhuis
Chronicling the Ice
Long before global warming became a cause célà¨bre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought
July 2007 |
By J. Madeleine Nash
The World After Oil
As the planet warms up, eco-friendly fuels can't get here fast enough
April 01, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
Ahead in the Clouds
Susan Solomon helped patch the ozone hole. Now, as a leader of a major United Nations report—out this month—she's going after global warming
February 2007 |
By Virginia Morell
Frozen in Time
Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming
October 01, 2006 |
By Anne Bolen
Storm Warnings
Is global warming to blame for the intensity of recent Atlantic hurricanes? While experts debate that question, they agree that more devastating tempests are headed our way.
September 2006 |
By J. Madeleine Nash
Uphill Battle
As the climate warms in the cloud forests of the Andes, plants and animals must climb to higher, cooler elevations or die.
August 2006 |
By Michael Tennesen
Al Gore Discusses "An Inconvenient Truth"
Environmentalist Al Gore talks about his new movie.
July 01, 2006 |
By Amy Crawford
Baked Alaska
A unique study documents the disappearance of Alaska's glaciers, blamed on global warming
August 2005 |
By Laura Helmuth
