Climate Change

Where to Search

You can search any database for articles related to climate change. Look for a research guide in your subject area(s) to help find core databases of academic research in your area of study. Try searching our General or Summon search for a more general search or to search a broader range of resource types beyond academic journals. If you are in the sciences, we've included a list of databases that include significant environmental sciences literature below. 

Select search terms to help get started:

• climate justice
• climate action
• climate change mitigation
• biodiversity
• sustainable development
• fossil fuels / emissions / fossil gases / oil and gas / greenhouse gases / GHG
• climate change / climatic changes
• global heating / global warming / global temperature change
• global environmental change / environmental change
• atmospheric change
• greenhouse effect
• pollution / contamination

Search tools that can be used in many databases:

• Use quotation marks to search for a phrase.
  Example: "climate change"
• Use asterisks to truncate a term to search for words with the same stem.
  Example: climat* retrieves climate, climatic, climates

Search filters are pre-tested strategies used to find research in database searches. Search filters are often designed to meet certain standards or guidelines and can help increase the chance of finding relevant materials. Please cite filters when using them (most will be published in journal articles or will provide a citation that you can use).

You can search any database for articles related to climate change. The following is a list of databases with an environmental sciences focus. For works addressing climate change in other fields you might like to start with the core databases in that field, which you can find listed in our research guides. See the search terms above for ideas on what to search.