Stories by Naomi Oreskes

In an ominous sign of global warming, melting permafrost underneath Arctic lakes lets them drain into the ground

Concerns about accusations of hype may have biased them toward conservative underestimates

Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability will take energy industry donations, which will warp priorities and research agendas

Researchers worry about being branded as partisan, but people want to hear from experts

Instead of scaling up renewable energy, researchers promote unproved ideas

Greenhouse gas emissions from research damage climate

Doctors may accept spurious claims about medical treatments, and invalid studies wrongly influence public policy

Academics too often use intellectual attainment to excuse abusive behavior. That needs to stop

Data show alarming declines in wildlife but also point to ways to save it

People should be skeptical of big claims based on only one study and dig a little deeper

These plants take too long to build and bring online, and we don’t have that much time

Our climate problem is big, but a person’s diet change can make an impact

Women are investigating critical climate crisis problems such as the stability of giant ice sheets

Two physicists object to a Scientific American essay calling for an end to one climate report. A science historian counters that the report has done its job

It’s time to redirect your major focus to how we deal with the problem

Jargon is appropriate when you’re speaking with colleagues, but it’s a turnoff for the rest of us

Unfortunately, its strongest proponent was, which tainted its reception

Researchers cite studies that can’t be replicated weirdly often

It can’t supply absolute truths about the world, but it brings us steadily closer

GOP officials have been denigrating the government, including government scientists, for decades

His track record on getting climate science right is extremely poor

Our instincts are unreliable about which problems are easy to solve and which are hard

Value neutrality among researchers is a myth that hurts the public trust of science

The failure of the U.S. to respond appropriately to the pandemic could have been predicted if anyone had bothered to ask social scientists