Forty years ago, the public was outraged. It seemed there was a wave of teenage girls, particularly Black teenage girls, getting pregnant. "This was a new idea, this new deviant class of people, and ...

For decades, Black women have been told that the negative health outcomes we face are our own fault. We’re fed rhetoric that we are diabetic because we won’t stop eating foods passed down as heirlooms ...

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 ...

When Dr. Arline Geronimus first introduced the theory in 1990, her ideas were derided and largely ignored. Now, people are starting to listen. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta For Arline Geronimus, avoiding ...

A new study shows how land and ocean weathering form one system, linking rivers, rocks, and seafloor muds to shape Earth’s carbon cycle.

The come-on for “Weathering the Future” is not a regurgitation of observable fact—that there have been, in recent years, more frequent tornadoes, angrier hurricanes, rising waters and persistent ...