Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
Evolution: Education and Outreach — the journal promoting the accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience — is now open access! As its editors Gregory Eldredge and Niles Eldredge explain, "From now on, we will be fully Open Access on our website…
The final version of the Next Generation Science Standards was released on April 9, 2013 — and the topics of evolution and climate change, as expected, were not neglected. The new standards, as NCSE's Mark McCaffrey discussed at LiveScience (April 5, 2013), are a new set of state science standards…
"U.S. worry about global warming is heading back up after several years of expanded public skepticism," according (PDF) to a new poll from Gallup. Also heading back up are the rate of understanding that most scientists accept global warming and the rate of accepting that increases in the global…
NCSE is pleased to announce three new additions to its Advisory Council, reflecting the addition of climate education to NCSE's area of concern: James E. Hansen, Michael MacCracken, and Bill McKibben. "NCSE has long relied on a select group of distinguished scientists, scholars, and educators to…
A new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press asked about global warming and its causes. A press release summarizes, "The survey ... finds that 69% say there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades. That is…
A new report from the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication suggests (PDF) that a slim majority of Republicans accept that climate change is happening. The researchers surveyed 726 adults who recently identified…
NCSE's Josh Rosenau contributed "Will Climate Change Denial Inherit the Wind?" to Mobilizing Ideas, the blog of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame. "The persistence of the creationist movement is a remarkable example of the power of social movements, and…
National Public Radio highlighted climate change education in a segment of its Morning Edition show broadcast on March 27, 2013, featuring NCSE's Mark McCaffrey. "By the time today's K-12 students grow up, the challenges posed by climate change are expected to be severe and sweeping," the segment…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Marlene Zuk's Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live (W. W. Norton, 2013). The preview consists of the whole of the introduction, in which Zuk sketches her argument against "the idea that our modern lives are…