Global Wildfires Are Raging, L...
Record or near-record temperatures, combined with drought in many areas, are contributing to yet another record-setting summer for wildfires.
read moreRecord or near-record temperatures, combined with drought in many areas, are contributing to yet another record-setting summer for wildfires.
read moreAs many as five billion people will face hunger and a lack of clean water by 2050 as the warming climate disrupts pollination, freshwater, and coastal habitats, according to new research published last week in Science.
read moreWhen 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 moreThe melting of glaciers and loss of snow has a cascading effect for ecosystems, agriculture and billions of people downstream.
read moreWe have the tools. Now we are building the political power.
read moreMeat consumption is a huge driver of global warming, from deforestation to cow farts. Meatless meat isn’t a miracle, though.
read moreWhat if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries moved away from fossil fuels?
read moreForget “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.”
read moreReaders 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.
read more“We cannot just put it in the soil and the forests. And that is not something that very many candidates understand or are talking about.”
read moreDespite its increasing role in global warming and effect on the ozone layer, little has been done to rein in this climate pollutant. One big reason: agriculture.
read moreTo avoid the worst consequences of global warming, report after report has stressed the importance of cutting emissions.
read moreWild fires burning in the Amazon and Siberia, unrelenting heat waves,100 year floods happening yearly are signs of our times, the worst of times.
read moreCalifornia is facing yet another real estate-related crisis, but we’re not talking about its sky-high home prices. According to newly released data, it’s simply become too risky to insure houses in big swaths of the wildfire-prone state.
read moreThe 2020 presidential contender tells Mother Jones about his $16 trillion proposal to save the planet.
read moreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture is supposed to use the “latest available science” to help the nation’s farmers avoid risk, according to its own mission.
read moreI’m sure you’ve heard that old adage, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.”
read moreFour of the world’s largest automakers have struck a deal with California to reduce automobile emissions, siding with the state in its fight with President Trump over one of his most consequential regulatory rollbacks.
read moreThe Federal Reserve should act aggressively to reduce that risk, a leading economic historian argues.
read moreOn July 8, President Trump hosted a White House event to unabashedly tout his truly abysmal environmental record.
read moreIt’s no secret that our planet isn’t in the best shape. The poles’ protective ice is melting, there’s a hole in the ozone layer, and no one can figure out quickly enough how to replace CO2- producing cars.
read moreThe 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 moreAs 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 moreOn 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 moreA European Union satellite has confirmed that June was the hottest month on earth since scientific record-keeping began around 1850.
read moreThe clouds created by jet engine pollution have a surprisingly powerful short-term impact on global warming.
read moreFor pennies a meal, the federal government can incentivize better environmental services.
read moreThe 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.
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