Alaska Chokes on Wildfires as ...
Fires are spreading farther north, burning more intensely and starting earlier, in line with what scientists have warned would happen with climate change.
read moreThe Guardian view on the clima...
The closer the prospect of disaster becomes, the less the government manages to do
read more24 Governors Call on Trump to ...
The opposition to one of President Trump’s most consequential regulatory rollbacks — a plan to weaken pollution standards for automobiles nationwide — widened on Tuesday when 24 governors, including three Republicans, urged the president to abandon his plan.
read moreEnvironmentalism’s Next Fronti...
Ships and corporations have legal standing. Should ecosystems?
read more‘Completely terrifying’: Study...
“Once we’re over the threshold…you’re dealing with how the Earth works, and it goes on its own ride.”
read moreBattling a Flooded Future
As flooding increases across the country, architects and policymakers are strategizing ways to contain the deluge.
read moreMaine Hits Clean Energy Grand ...
As a baseball fan, I’m looking forward to watching the best players in the world compete for bragging rights in the 90th Major League Baseball All-Star game tonight. As a Maine resident for the past 11 years, I’m even more thrilled to see Maine regain its all-star status as a clean energy leader.
read moreRavaged by Drought, a Honduran...
People in El Rosario live on the edge of hunger, not knowing if the next harvest will come. Climate change is a driving force of food insecurity.
read moreCargill promised to end defore...
In 2014, the world’s largest agribusiness, Cargill, announced it would stop buying palm oil, rubber, and other commodities from farmers who cut down forests to grow their crops.
read moreAs the World Heats Up, the Cli...
As Europe heats up, Greenland melts and the Midwest floods, many news organizations are devoting more resources to climate change as they cover the topic with more urgency.
read moreIt’s the End of the World as T...
On election night 2016, Kim Cobb, a professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, was on Christmas Island, the world’s largest ring-shaped coral reef atoll, about 1,300 miles south of Hawaii.
read moreThe Latest Signs We Are Cookin...
A European Union satellite has confirmed that June was the hottest month on earth since scientific record-keeping began around 1850.
read moreU.S. Mayors Pressure Congress ...
The U.S. Conference of Mayors opposed any limits on suing fossil fuel companies over climate change, which would rule out a carbon tax plan supported by industry.
read moreMelting Greenland Is Awash in ...
As Greenland warms and the ice sheet melts, sediment pours out along with the water. That might help meet a growing worldwide demand for sand.
read moreU.N. Chief Warns Paris Climate...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates—U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took his global message urging immediate climate action to officials gathered in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, where production of hydrocarbons remains a key driver of the economy.
read moreOregon Leaders Fail to Take Ag...
Governor Should Call Special Session to Continue Debate on Climate Bill
read moreToday’s Fossil Fuel Infr...
To stay within the Paris climate goals, coal and other fossil fuel-fired power plants would have to shut down early or be retrofitted for carbon capture.
read moreAirplane Contrails’ Clim...
The clouds created by jet engine pollution have a surprisingly powerful short-term impact on global warming.
read moreThe first Democratic debate re...
What is the greatest geopolitical threat to the United States? That was the question NBC’s Chuck Todd posed to 10 Democratic candidates for president during the first primary debate on Wednesday night. Four of them said climate change: Beto O’Rourke, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Julian Castro.
read moreReport: Doing Your Part To Sto...
Redefining the necessary adjustments required to address the accelerated pace of the growing global environmental crisis, a report published Wednesday by researchers at Brown University concluded that a single individual who wishes to do their part to stop climate change must
read moreDozens of public health groups...
Over 70 medical and public health organizations called on elected (and hoping-to-be-elected) officials Monday morning to commit to combating what they deem to be the “greatest public health challenge of the 21st century.”
read moreDesalination plants are here, ...
Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along the Pacific Coast, sits the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest effort to turn saltwater into freshwater in North America.
read moreWhat if We Paid Farmers to Fig...
For pennies a meal, the federal government can incentivize better environmental services.
read moreClimate Change Isn’t Only Chan...
It could ruin archeological sites before we get the chance to study them
read more100 times more pollution than ...
The numbers are stunning: Methane pollution from ammonia fertilizer plants is 100 times higher than what the industry reports, and substantially above what the Environmental Protection Agency estimates for all industrial processes in the United States.
read moreNew York Passes Ambitious Clim...
The state legislation drew widespread praise for its goals, but also concerns that it fell short on support for disadvantaged communities.
read moreClimate Change Deniers Aren’t ...
When they go to court, fossil fuel companies don’t dare question the science.
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