Meet the Money Behind The Clim...
Nearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement
read moreA Climate Silver Bullet?
Many of those who gathered in New York this week for the latest round of international climate summitry believe that as the world falls further behind in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, other options such as solar geoengineering and carbon removal must be on the table. The problem is that techno-optimism can easily become an alibi for inaction.
read moreThe Green Revolution Spreading...
Replacing black asphalt and shingles with plants can lower the surrounding air temperature, filter dirty storm water and reduce a building’s energy use.
read moreRevealed: the 20 firms behind ...
[Translate] The polluters Chevron’s Kern River oil field in Bakersfield, California. Photograph: Guardian Design New data shows how...
read moreWhat Did Hurricane Dorian Do t...
Fearing devastation, scientists have begun their survey.
read more‘Remember When Google...
Google, whose unofficial company motto was once “Don’t be evil,” counts major deniers of the climate crisis among the groups “that receive the most substantial contributions” from the tech giant’s U.S. Government Affairs and Public Policy team.
read moreElizabeth Warren’s new climate...
A number of Democratic candidates for president have released ambitious environmental plans that make the environmental platforms of yore look like yesterday’s lunch.
read moreNew Study Warns 5 Billion Peop...
“If we continue on this trajectory, ecosystems will be unable to provide natural insurance in the face of climate change-induced impacts on food, water, and infrastructure.”
read moreWhat Are Californians Supposed...
PG&E is turning off the power to protect against another fire. It’s created a new kind of disaster.
read moreWhy Amazon Fires Keep Raging 1...
Many of the thousands of fires burning in Brazil’s Amazon are set by ranchers. A deal inked 10 years ago was meant to stop the problem, but the ecological arson goes on as the Earth warms.
read moreWhy Extinction Rebellion is oc...
Hundreds of climate protesters around the world were arrested Monday, kicking off Extinction Rebellion’s “International Rebellion,” two weeks of direct action and civil disobedience protests in 60 countries.
read moreOn Climate Change, Biden Has a...
When Michaelyn Mankel approached Joseph R. Biden Jr. at an Iowa steak fry last month to demand dramatic action on climate change, the former vice president clasped the 24-year-old’s hands and assured her, “You’ve got a better deal from me than anybody.”
read moreHow to save sinking cities and...
New research finds that a two-pronged approach is necessary to fight things like sea-level rise and ocean acidification.
read moreIn European First, Proposed Co...
“When we’re in the beginning of an ecological and climate collapse,” said the lawmaker who introduced the measure, “I hope we can re-think our relationship with Nature.”
read moreThe Blob: A marine heatwave la...
In the fall of 2013, scientists in Washington noticed a strange physical phenomenon surfacing in the Pacific Ocean — a vast patch of unusually warm water moving through the Pacific.
read moreWant to know what climate chan...
Adrienne Titus was heading back to her parents’ village on a sweltering afternoon in early July when she saw the dead salmon.
read moreAs Sea Levels Rise, So Do Ghos...
Saltwater is killing woodlands along the East Coast, sometimes surprisingly far from the sea.
read moreIn The Mountains, Climate Cha...
The melting of glaciers and loss of snow has a cascading effect for ecosystems, agriculture and billions of people downstream.
read moreNew York City Wants to Put a C...
The island, which has an unusual history and considerable real estate potential, could host a complex devoted to climate policy under the plan, which is in its early stages.
read moreA Major Fossil Fuel State Is J...
Pennsylvania is the nation’s No. 2 natural gas producer, and No. 3 in coal. Its governor says ‘we need to get serious’ about the climate crisis.
read moreThis situation brings me to de...
Two Australian scientists speak of their personal grief and anxiety concerning the conditions of the iconic Great Barrier Reef. Reposted from The Conversation with permission.
read moreHard Times in the Climate Deni...
Last week, the Heartland Institute was again trumpeting climate science denial at its 13th “International Conference on Climate Change” at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. But by a number of measures, the Chicago-based free market think tank’s science denial doesn’t exactly seem to be a growing — or cohesive — movement at this point.
read moreOceans face dire threats from ...
Can something under threat also be a source of its own salvation? Climate change is wreaking havoc on the oceans. But the seas also hold tremendous potential for mitigation.
read moreHouston’s pocket prairies: Nat...
Humans are innovators and tend to look to technology to solve problems. But increasingly, people are turning to the natural world for solutions as well. For Houston, that means reintroducing the prairie.
read moreThe Beam Podcast, Episode 1: P...
The Earth is warming at a faster pace than the world’s scientists thought it would, and the climate crisis has become an emergency. Fossil fuels are the largest contributor to climate change.
read moreKilling California car polluti...
If you want to upend a half-century of legal tradition, you better have a damn-solid argument to justify your move. Especially if it’s a legal move so broad that it could nullify local speed limits.
read moreA Huge Iceberg Split From Anta...
A massive iceberg with the robotic sounding name D28 has separated in recent days from an ice sheet in Antarctica, prompting both awe and concern around the world.
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