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It’s the End of the World as T...

Jul 8, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

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.

The first Democratic debate re...

Jun 27, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

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.

As Coal Fades in the U.S., Nat...

Jun 26, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

America’s coal-burning power plants are shutting down at a rapid pace, forcing electric utilities to face the next big climate question: Embrace natural gas, or shift aggressively to renewable energy?

Dozens of public health groups...

Jun 25, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

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.”

What if We Paid Farmers to Fig...

Jun 24, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

For pennies a meal, the federal government can incentivize better environmental services.

The Next Wave of Climate Refug...

Jun 18, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

“We were so terrified with the water coming into the house and the sound of the storm.

Thawing Alaskan permafrost thr...

Jun 17, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

A city in western Alaska has lost a huge stretch of riverbank to erosion that may turn it into an island, amid renewed warnings from scientists over the havoc triggered by the accelerating melting of the state’s ice and permafrost.