Meet the 3 Climate Scientists ...

Sep 30, 2019 by

Their research is helping answer existential questions of our time: How much will sea level rise, how fast, and what will be the impact on human civilizations?

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These scientists are trying to...

Sep 30, 2019 by

Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments.

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What Kind of Problem Is Climat...

Sep 30, 2019 by

Knowing the answer might force us toward a real solution.

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We Can Save the Planet by Defu...

Sep 28, 2019 by

The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race, poverty, migration and public health.

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Cartoon: The United Nations ho...

Sep 27, 2019 by

An original cartoon by veteran freelance cartoonist Tom Toro.

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James Cameron wants us to stop...

Sep 27, 2019 by

The film director believes that ocean exploration could help us to prepare better for climate catastrophes.

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Oceans face dire threats from ...

Sep 27, 2019 by

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.

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Meet the Millionaires Helping ...

Sep 27, 2019 by

Climate change protesters from Extinction Rebellion snarled traffic in Washington on Monday and again on Friday. You might find yourself asking, “Who helps pays for this activism?”

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Melting permafrost in the Arct...

Sep 26, 2019 by

The consequences of climate change can be weird and apocalyptic.

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Before 1965, low CO2 levels we...

Sep 26, 2019 by

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.

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Kathryn Murdoch Steps Out of t...

Sep 26, 2019 by

You know her last name, and her father-in-law, Rupert, the conservative media mogul. Now, she hopes to remove partisan obstacles to climate progress that her family’s empire helped build.

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It’s the Environment, Stupid

Sep 25, 2019 by

There is a winning campaign theme that progressives can use against Trump, and it isn’t “Medicare for all.”

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Conservation group to buy larg...

Sep 23, 2019 by

The 530-acre forest has hundreds of ancient giant sequoia, including the fifth-largest tree known on the planet.

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A Q&A with the policy won...

Sep 20, 2019 by

Grist When Jay Inslee bowed out of the race for the White House in August, some worried that the Washington governor’s absence would leave a climate-shaped hole in the field.

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Al Gore: The Climate Crisis Is...

Sep 20, 2019 by

We have the tools. Now we are building the political power.

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How to save the planet in thre...

Sep 19, 2019 by

In a new video, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot explain that we must use nature to fix our broken climate.

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University of California to Di...

Sep 19, 2019 by

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, two top university investment officials said it was the long-term risk posed by fossil fuel investments, rather than concerns over the environment, that led them to pull some $150 million in fossil fuel assets from the university endowment.

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Why California is fighting fir...

Sep 19, 2019 by

What if the answer to California’s wildfire woes is more fire?

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Just How Good Is the Impossibl...

Sep 19, 2019 by

Meat consumption is a huge driver of global warming, from deforestation to cow farts. Meatless meat isn’t a miracle, though.

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Sliding Down the Climate Slope

Sep 19, 2019 by

The widely recited “12-year deadline” to avert catastrophe is wrong — and right.

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Money Is the Oxygen on Which t...

Sep 18, 2019 by

What if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries moved away from fossil fuels?

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How the Rise of Populism is Fu...

Sep 18, 2019 by

In December 2015, European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker stood at a podium to hail the world’s first comprehensive agreement to take action on climate change, and told the world, “the Paris Agreement now reflects our ambition worldwide.” While the European Union’s leaders stand by that sentiment, a lot has changed since then.

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There Has Never Been A Better ...

Sep 18, 2019 by

I remember sitting in my room one day, feeling truly concerned about the fate of this planet.

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Fossil fuel companies roll out...

Sep 17, 2019 by

Forget “climate change” and “global warming”: Environmental advocates are increasingly using phrases that emphasize the urgency of our planetary pickle, such as “climate crisis,” “climate emergency,” and “existential threat.”

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Why Your Carbon Footprint Is M...

Sep 17, 2019 by

Liberals who call for personal sacrifice to combat climate change aren’t helping. In fact, they’re hurting.

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Trump to bar California from s...

Sep 17, 2019 by

The Trump administration will announce as early as Wednesday it is revoking California’s authority to set its own vehicle greenhouse gas standards and blocking states from setting tailpipe emission rules — a move that will spark a furious legal challenge, two auto industry officials said on Tuesday

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‘A goddamn terrifying time to ...

Sep 17, 2019 by

Naomi Klein explains what ‘increasingly barbaric political figures’ like Trump have figured out about the future

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‘Trollbots’ Swarm ...

Sep 16, 2019 by

A new tool is tracking automated and otherwise questionable social media accounts as they sow disinformation, discord and division. Climate change is a target.

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The problem with putting a dea...

Sep 16, 2019 by

Readers of The New Yorker woke up last Sunday morning to find that Jonathan Franzen — the infamous bird-watcher previously pilloried for arguing that concern about climate change distracted from conservation — was at it again.

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How a Revolution in Climate Sc...

Sep 16, 2019 by

“The court room is a new frontier around addressing climate change.”

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