There's a big reason climate change differs from so many public policy challenges: unlike other crises, addressing the planet's major environmental crisis truly requires mass consensus. Indeed, because fixing the problem

 In some polls, nearly half of all Americans believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old and was once entirely covered by Noah’s flood, which left behind the mountain ranges and canyons that constitute the topography of our world.

After beginning my reporting career under an editor I considered unnaturally obsessed with...

In 2003, the Shepherd Express decided that a world-class city like Milwaukee needed a world-class international film festival. With that in mind, it set up a nonprofit charitable corporation, Milwaukee's Future Foundation, to create and run the 11-day...

The argument between science and religion is as old as Copernicus, but the shouting got louder during the last decade, fueled in part by an American administration whose policies sometimes appeared to be written by biblical fundamentalists. William P Brown, a professor at Columbia Theological Seminary...

The Discovery World Museum regularly saves special presentations to preview them at special “Members Nights,” specifically reserved for museum members. Tonight, from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m., the museum hosts one of these events. Draws include several screenings of a 30-minute film on unusual animal survival . . .

To coincide with the Milwaukee Public Museum’s Body Worlds exhibit, the Humphrey Imax Dome Theater is presenting The Human Body, a 2001 high-definition documentary. It follows an ultra-ordinary family as they go about their normal routine, showing in amazing biological detail how the body performs such . . .