How to act in service of the planet — and your values.

Which forms of activism have the most impact? Where should you focus your energies to create change? Our research uncovered how to be an effective activist.

Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a five-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to create 3D reconstructions of vertebrate specimens and make them freely available online.

Principles from cognitive science can help help in the design of more effective teaching materials for maths.

With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for decades, and it has evolved to adapt to new technologies like game systems, phones and tablets. But unt...

You can learn to get better at connecting with people – and doing so will improve your life.

Roger Fidler tried his best, but the excellent business of journalism is gone for good. Can the idea of “news” survive in a digital world?

JSTOR is now available in 1,000 prisons across 4 continents, supporting the education and growth of more than 550,000 incarcerated people.

A public conference on Feb. 23 and 24 co-led by professor Nirvana Tanoukhi will explore the impact of memes on society and culture.

Republican voters in the US who support climate change action tend to self-censor because they anticipate social conflict, although they are aware that they hold a majority view, according to a survey of 1000 representative Republican voters.

Study of more than 70,000 people suggests that trust levels vary among countries and are linked to political orientation.

A recent study by behavioral researchers at the University of Bonn, the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE in Frankfurt, and the University of Copenhagen demonstrates for the first time that a broad majority of the world's population supports climate action and is willing to incur a perso...

Play as a planetary planner and decide what we should do about the climate, biodiversity, and human welfare. Can you bring the world safely to a better place?

By Oli Mould, Royal Holloway University of London This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Like many eco-conscious film buffs, …

Data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that planetary damage could be about to peak – but that the US election result could be "pivotal".

Scientists should challenge online falsehoods and inaccuracies — and harness the collective power of the Internet to fight back, argues Phil Williamson.

Creativity can help promote environmental justice and support the disempowered to highlight their concerns about sustainability issues, a study shows.

An international team of scientists has created a tool that can aid in increasing climate awareness and climate action globally by highlighting messaging themes shown to be effective through experimental research.

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It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.

Do climate change deniers bend the facts to avoid having to modify their environmentally harmful behavior? Researchers from the University of Bonn and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) ran an online experiment involving 4,000 US adults, and found no evidence to support this idea. The authors of...

Disinformation abounds, and it can kill. Fortunately, it can often be unambiguously identified

Being smart won’t protect you from falling down conspiracy rabbit holes.

U.S. and international scientific associations will join with high-profile media outlets to sign a pledge of cooperation aimed at ensuring climate change-related communications are scientifically accurate, accessible, and actionable. The signing will take place Tuesday, January 30, during a special ...

An important question for policymakers worldwide is how to make climate and environmental policies acceptable among the populations. A new study published in Climate Policy sheds light on the preferences in five East African countries. The study shows, among other things, that education and informat...

A higher quality discussion emerged among commenters allowed to use personas instead of their real names.

Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us towards the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.

Jennifer Bogard and Lisa Donovan share lesson plans that humanize history by pairing Library of Congress primary sources with arts-integration strategies.