During the Ordovician period, the concentration of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere was about eight times higher than today. It has been hard to explain why the climate cooled and why the Ordovician ...

Achieving the Paris Agreement goals of keeping global warming to “well below” 2C, or to 1.5C, above pre-industrial levels will require rapid decarbonisation of human society. But national commitments ...

This story is part of SELF's ongoing series exploring black maternal mortality. You can find the rest of the series here. Imagine for a moment that you’re a very silly 22-year-old driving through ...

Professor Arline T. Geronimus of the University of Michigan developed the theory of “weathering” while studying health complications of first-time mothers and identifying racial and economic ...

Netflix’s Weathering is a sharp, if not a little predictable, commentary on what happens when Black women are ignored. After a mother loses her baby in childbirth, she’s haunted by the loss and can’t ...

Weathering With You is now playing in limited release. Theater and ticket info can be found here. For years, Makoto Shinkai has been obsessed with a singular vision: how do I capture the optimism and ...

Amid a global pandemic in 2020, the world watched as George Floyd was killed. The beast that is racial injustice was split right open, laid bare for all to see. We were forced to examine the very ...

Living in the midst of chronically stressful situations, including those suffused with race inequality and gender discrimination, may trigger new growth and coping skills — but it can also erode your ...

This year, 2020, is the gift that keeps on giving in the worst way possible, and the Black community is bearing the brunt of the bad news. Not only are we experiencing a disproportionate amount of ...