Got flight shame? Would you pa...
Flight shame — that guilty feeling for traveling by air because of its large impact on the climate — is making some customers think twice before flying.
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If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse.”
read more60% of Toxic Superfund Sites T...
Hundreds of polluted sites face an increased risk of inundation from sea level rise, flooding exacerbated by global warming, or wildfires, Congress’s watchdog warns.
read moreIt’s not just Venice. Climate ...
Saltwater rushed into St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice last week, submerging marble tombs, intricate mosaics, and centuries-old columns. A man was spotted swimming across St. Mark’s Square, normally bustling with tourists, as the highest tide in 50 years swept through.
read moreAs Climate Risk Grows, Cities ...
Glimpsed from a kayak on West Neck Creek, this swampy piece of land, a pocket of red maple and loblolly pine tucked behind growing subdivisions, doesn’t look like the stuff of existential debate.
read moreThis Pipeline Cuts Across a Re...
They could face fines of $10,000 and up to six years in jail.
read moreGiant Floating Solar Farms Cou...
Millions of solar panels clustered together to form an island could convert carbon dioxide in seawater into methanol, which can fuel airplanes and trucks, according to new research from Norway and Switzerland and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, PNAS, as NBC News reported.
read moreCap and Trade Is Supposed to S...
Countries have called California’s cap-and-trade program the answer to climate change. But it is just as vulnerable to lobbying as any other legislation. The result: The state’s biggest oil and gas companies have actually polluted more since it started.
read moreEven States With Green Activis...
“Inslee and Brown are doing everything politically feasible.”
read moreClimate change fueled the rise...
Ancient Mesopotamia, the fabled land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the command and control center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
read more‘Racism dictates who gets dump...
Five luminaries explain the concept of ‘environmental justice’ and reveal why, alongside the climate crisis, it is one of the most pressing issues of our time
read moreClimate change will affect “ev...
A baby born today will face higher risks of disease and undernutrition because of climate change, according to a new report in The Lancet.
read moreThe businesses that are — and ...
When president Trump announced his plans to withdraw from the Paris Agreement in 2017, businesses spoke out en masse in opposition to this plan — conveying that long-term, global competitiveness demands climate action.
read moreDoubling down: Researchers inv...
Climate researchers are increasingly exploring risk potentials associated with compound climate change events.
read moreOne of the country’s biggest c...
This past summer, members of Congress and environmental groups began using the hashtag #ChamberofCarbon to call out the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its anti-climate agenda.
read moreYou’re Paying Big Oil to...
The one thing you never want to hear your dentist say is “oops!” It’s also alarming to hear from a former U.S. senator — 25 years after he passed a temporary oil subsidy for Big Oil.
read moreWhat’s Driving Antarctica̵...
Antarctica’s ice loss is on the rise. Along with warmer water eating away at ice shelves from below, atmospheric rivers are causing trouble from above.
read moreAs Climate Change Threatens Mi...
Spring floods, hot summers and warmer winters have been wake-up calls as global warming raises the risks for everything from ice fishing to growing seasons.
read moreDisrupting Climate Change Thro...
The only way to get ahead of a crisis as large as climate change is through groundbreaking technological innovation in clean energy and low-carbon technologies.
read moreForged in Fire: California’s L...
The words came bellowing from a burly man who had just pulled up to the pile of ash that once was his home in Paradise, California.
read moreREI’s Opt-to-Act plan wi...
Because a single day of #OptOutside isn’t enough for real action.
read moreIt’s Friday, November 8, and H...
In recent days, the mayors of Honolulu and Maui County announced plans to file lawsuits against major fossil fuel companies for damages resulting from climate change.
read moreEmperor Penguins could march t...
The concept of a canary in a coal mine – a sensitive species that provides an alert to danger – originated with British miners, who carried actual canaries underground through the mid-1980s to detect the presence of deadly carbon monoxide gas. Today another bird, the Emperor Penguin, is providing a similar warning about the planetary effects of burning fossil fuels.
read moreClimate Change Affects Student...
Education is a fundamental right, codified in the constitutions of nearly half of the 50 states including California and in international law.
read moreRising Sea Levels Pose Threat ...
The figure is based on new analysis and more than three times the previous estimate.
read moreScramble for propane marks Mot...
Months after historic floods ravaged the U.S. Midwest, farmers scrambling to harvest their crops face a new headache: finding fuel to dry their soaked grains.
read moreMeet the MythBuster for climat...
Back in 2008, Stéphane Dion, the leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, asked the economist Mark Jaccard for his advice on climate policy. Dion wanted to put a carbon tax at the center of his campaign to become prime minister.
read moreTrump officially turned his ba...
The Trump White House has made it official, giving notice that it will pull out of the Paris climate agreement and leave the United States as the only nation in the world failing to participate.
read moreAlaska’s Whale Mystery: Where ...
As the Arctic struggles with climate extremes, the bowhead migration is two months late. If whales don’t arrive soon, “we’re going to go hungry,” one hunter said.
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