PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT…
12/25/19
…what we see when we look back over the past year and the past decade…
By Christopher Flavelle
12/25/19
It was a big year for climate reporting, and not necessarily for the good news. Wildfires consumed vast parts of the Amazon and Arctic alike. Greenhouse…
By Sarah Kaplan 01/02/20
At the start of the previous decade, Kallan Benson was 5 years old, her favorite story was “The Secret Garden,” and Earth was in the…
By Evlondo Cooper 01/01/20
Marked by innovative initiatives and high-quality reporting, 2019 was a breakout year for climate journalism. But there is still work to be done. Broadcast and…
By Kristin Musulin 12/30/19
THIS DECADE, MANY people around the world woke up to a grim reality: Climate change is here, it’s happening now, and it could very easily…
By Karen Savage 12/30/19
One of the busiest years yet for climate litigation, 2019 was highlighted by favorable decisions handed down by some of the world’s highest courts.
By Joel Makower 12/30/19
It is always difficult to encapsulate a 12-month period, let alone the 365 turbocharged 24-hour news cycles that seem to have become the new normal.…
By John D. Sutter 12/29/19
THIS DECADE, MANY people around the world woke up to a grim reality: Climate change is here, it’s happening now, and it could very easily…
By BOB BERWYN 12/28/19
The 2010s may go down in environmental history as the decade when the fingerprints of climate change became evident in extreme weather events, from heat…
By Bryan Walsh 12/26/19
OnDecember 11, two things happened that caught the attention of those invested in the fight against climate change, which at this point should include all…
By Alex Davies 12/26/19
Ten years ago, they promised us self-driving cars. We got a scooter surge, clashes with regulators, and the brutal realities of mobility.
By PBS NewsHour 12/25/19
By almost any measure, 2019 was a year of especially sobering news on climate change, with grim warnings about what could happen in the future…
By The Civil Eats Editors 12/24/19
From regenerative agriculture to community resilience, climate change was front and center in our reporting in 2019. Here are some of our best stories.
By Kelly Levin 12/20/19
THIS DECADE, MANY people around the world woke up to a grim reality: Climate change is here, it’s happening now, and it could very easily…
By Bob Henson 12/17/19
Leading climate researcher, Katharine Hayhoe (Texas Tech University), put it this way: “Every action matters. Every bit of warming matters. Every year matters. Every choice…
By ALEJANDRA BORUNDA 12/12/19
THIS DECADE, MANY people around the world woke up to a grim reality: Climate change is here, it’s happening now, and it could very easily…
By Bud Ward 12/11/19
Climate scientists list most encouraging, most discouraging, developments of 2019. (Part II, to come, on outlook for 2020)
By Al Gore 02/01/16
Why is Al Gore optimistic about climate change? In this spirited talk, Gore asks three powerful questions about the man-made forces threatening to destroy our…
By Kristin Musulin 12/28/19
The end of 2019 is quickly approaching, leaving a whirlwind of city-shaping news and developments in its wake.
12/15/19
… the resounding and disappointing outcome of COP25
By Somini Sengupta
12/15/19
In what was widely denounced as one of the worst outcomes in a quarter-century of climate negotiations, United Nations talks ended early Sunday morning with…
By Simon Evans 12/27/19
This year’s annual UN climate conference, COP25 in Madrid, became the longest on record when it concluded after lunch on Sunday, following more than two…
By Joel Makower 12/16/19
If the sign of success for a negotiation is when no one gets what they want, then the COP25 climate conference, just ended, was an…
By Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin and Chico Harlan 12/16/19
Global climate talks lurched to an end here Sunday with finger-pointing, accusations of failure and fresh doubts about the world's collective resolve to slow the…
By Jocelyn Timperley 12/16/19
The annual UN climate talks closed in disappointment on Sunday in Madrid, after two weeks spent trying to hash out a deal.
By Chloé Farand 12/15/19
The rift between a growing climate vanguard and a handful of countries obstructing progress meant countries failed to finalise the rules of the Paris Agreement…
By Dino Grandoni 12/02/19
President Trump isn’t going to Spain this week for a major international climate change conference. That isn’t a surprise, given everything he’s said and done…
12/04/19
… Countdown, a new partnership to fight climate change by TED and YOUTUBE
By Justine Calma
12/04/19
TED announced a new climate change initiative called Countdown with the help of YouTube and a coalition of global leaders and nonprofit environmental organizations today…
By Christiana Figueres and Chris Anderson 12/12/19
Witness the unveiling of Countdown, a major global campaign to cut greenhouse gas emissions. TED has partnered with scientists, policy makers, organizations, activists and more…
By Esha Chhabra 12/10/19
This year’s annual UN climate conference, COP25 in Madrid, became the longest on record when it concluded after lunch on Sunday, following more than two…
12/06/19
TED has announced a new initiative called Countdown in New York City. The new climate change initiative has been rolled out with the help of…
By Daniel Christian Wahl 12/05/19
TED-Global launches ZERO NET Emissions by 2050 initiative to build global collaboration across all sectors and among all of humanity to achieve net-zero emissions globally…
11/01/19
… Wildfires in California
11/02/19
The most recent fire is the Sobrante fire, which started on Nov. 1. It is 0% contained and has burned 35 acres so far.The largest…
By Grace Toohey and Alexandra E. Petri 08/31/22
The extreme temperatures that will bear down on California over the next week are the result of a “heat dome,” a phenomenon that typically brings…
By Yoohyun Jung 07/25/22
Many of the largest wildfires in recent U.S. history have happened in California just in the past few years, including last year's Dixie Fire, which…
By Elizabeth Weil 01/03/22
After another devastating year, it’s clear that Californians can’t keep trying to “fight” wildfires. Instead, they need to accept it as their new reality.
By William J. Broad 10/01/21
In July, as wildfires tore through the American West, President Biden met with the region’s governors to find better ways to battle the flames. Gov.…
08/21/21
Crews were digging in and burning out fire lines amid fears that another round of high winds on Saturday could bring renewed fury to a…
By Louis Sahagún 08/18/21
It was just before sunrise in July when the botanists Naomi Fraga and Maria Jesus threw on backpacks and crunched their way across a brittle…
By Aaron Williams, Marisa Iati and María Luisa Paúl 08/06/21
Teresa Hatch, 61, had evacuated her rural Northern California town several days ago as the Dixie Fire menaced, but soon was allowed back. Then the…
By Gillian Flaccus 07/21/21
The wildfires raging in the western United States, including the massive Bootleg blaze in Oregon and fires in California, are creating hazy skies as far…
By Andrew Freedman 10/23/20
At least five people are missing in the East Troublesome Fire, which burned 140,000 acres in 24 hours
By Virginia Gewin 10/13/20
On September 12, Iverson Family Farms posted ominous images on social media of their fields under a ruddy red sky, thick with a stagnant, dense…
10/04/20
Is climate change reversible? Scott Pelley speaks with the "father of climate science" and others for an answer. Air Date: Oct 4, 2020
by Gabrielle Canon 09/26/20
California is bracing for another dangerously warm weekend, with dry winds, parched vegetation, and triple-digit temperatures threatening to ignite new fires and complicating containment efforts…
By Dan Zak 11/04/19
This is the Easy Fire, the one that gnawed the perimeter of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and it quickly disappears from sight. It’s nighttime…
By Nicole Chavez 11/01/19
Firefighters in California have been batting numerous blazes nonstop, trying to save millions of people and homes from the flames. The biggest fire, the Kincade…
By PAOLO ZIALCITA, RICHARD GONZALES 11/01/19
A Southern California utility said late Friday that minutes after it had restored electricity to a power line that had been shut off to prevent…
By The New York Times 10/31/19
A new blaze known as the Hillside fire forced residents to flee as strong winds drove the flames.
By DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA 10/31/19
PG&E turned off the grid. All on Marin County and beyond is in the fifth day of no electricity.
By Chronicle Digital Team 10/29/19
To help visualize the immense size of the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, graphic artist Todd Trumbull created these maps to compare the burn area…
By Erik Larson 10/09/19
California has seen almost 160,000 acres burn in wildfires in 2019, a fraction of the amount that had burned by this time last year, according…
10/21/19
… How courts in New York and Boston are taking fossil fuel companies to court over climate change deception.
By John Cook, Geoffrey Supran, Stephan Lewandowsky, Naomi Oreskes, Ed Maibach
10/19/19
Over the past few decades, the fossil fuel industry has subjected the American public to a well-funded, well-orchestrated disinformation campaign about the reality and severity…
By David Hasemyer 01/17/20
Some of the biggest oil and gas companies are embroiled in legal disputes with cities, states and children over the industry's role in global warming.
By Alexander C. Kaufman 12/03/19
As far back as 1991, the Canadian arm of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s empire anticipated that a high tax on carbon emissions would be necessary to…
By Deutsche Welle 11/13/19
For analysts, one thing is clear: ExxonMobil needs new ways to revive itself. "The Stone Age didn't end because the stones ran out," analyst Stewart…
By Erik Larson 11/13/19
A dozen “public nuisance” lawsuits accuse fossil fuel giants of hiding, and denying, their knowledge of global warming.
By Dan Zegart 11/08/19
Tillerson's appearance was just one of several recent watershed moments for efforts to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for its dominant role in causing…
By Corinne Ramey 11/07/19
The New York attorney general’s office Thursday dropped part of its securities-fraud case against Exxon Mobil Corp. on the final day of a rare climate-change-related trial that has pushed the…
By Nicholas Kusnetz 11/06/19
With only days left before the two sides deliver their closing arguments, here's a look at what the attorney general needs to prove and how…
By Karen Savage 11/03/19
Auter’s testimony went right to that issue. “I did not appreciate the distinction of using the words greenhouse gas cost and proxy cost,” he testified.
By David Hasemyer 10/25/19
Exxon is facing allegations of deceptive advertising, misleading investors and actions that threaten the world economy. It's already on trial in New York.
By Erik Larson 10/23/19
The oil company couldn’t stop New York’s lawsuit, but the evidence forced the state to pivot. Outside the courthouse, protesters just want Big Oil to…
By Dino Grandoni and Steven Mufson with Paulina Firozi 10/22/19
ExxonMobil is facing one of its biggest legal threats ever as the state of New York takes the oil and gas giant to court over accusations it misled investors about…
By Karen Savage 10/22/19
Judge Barry Ostrager [heard] the first arguments in a trial that will decide whether Exxon deceived investors in violation of the Martin Act, New York’s powerful…
By Susanne Rust 10/21/19
Two days before ExxonMobil goes to court Wednesday, facing New York state accusations the oil company misled investors about climate change, a team of researchers…
By Rick Karlin 10/08/19
State contends oil giant concealed climate change costs, which company denies. Former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman may be gone from office, but the lawsuit be…
By Steven Shiffrin and Shanna Cleveland 11/20/18
Unfortunately, the Exxon case could become the latest chapter in what one legal scholar has called a corporate takeover of the First Amendment.
10/11/19
…Jane Fonda. Time for the old people to step up, take responsibility, and be as powerful for their generation as Greta is for hers.
By Steven Mufson
10/11/19
Fonda takes on the role of climate activist and brings it to a new stage: the Capitol, where she will demonstrate until she is arrested.…
By Maria L. La Ganga 02/02/20
The Oscar-winning actor had moved from Century City to Washington, D.C., in September, intent on a mission: to raise awareness of climate change. She protested on…
By Danny Welch 01/10/20
In her final appearance at a series of protests, the 82-year-old actress called for divestment from fossil fuels — and a larger protest movement.
By Elizabeth Williamson 12/28/19
The actress was joined by her “Grace and Frankie” co-star Lily Tomlin to headline a climate rally that offered plenty of chances to get arrested,…
Jane Fonda 12/16/19
At age 81, actor and activist Jane Fonda is putting herself on the line for the planet -- literally. In a video interview with TEDWomen…
By Scottie Andrew 12/13/19
Sally Field was the latest star to join Jane Fonda's weekly climate protests. She left Friday's rainy demonstration in front of the Capitol in plastic cable…
By Jane Fonda 12/05/19
We must start to live our lives as if this is an emergency, because it is. Each of us one day will have to answer…
By Sutton Dunwoodie 11/29/19
Fonda said the agriculture sector should be transformed on the model laid out in the Green New Deal, a proposal introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
By Michael Blackmon 11/29/19
At 81, the Hollywood icon is entering yet another stage in her life.
By Marcus Jones 11/22/19
This week’s demonstration focused on climate change’s threat to fresh water, with Fonda delivering a speech to the crowd that said, “At Standing Rock I…
By Marcus Jones 11/15/19
The actress and activist’s TV daughters, June Diane Raphael and Brooklyn Decker, from Grace and Frankie joined Fonda at the demonstration, calling for the end of fossil fuel exploration and…
By Brooke Marine 11/15/19
Putting the words "celebrity" and "activist" next to one another makes for a fraught description of some members of Hollywood's A-list, but for decades, Jane…
By Sutton Dunwoodie 11/15/19
Actress Jane Fonda led a climate change protest on Capitol Hill for the sixth consecutive Friday, bringing along her now iconic red coat and a host of…
Heard on All Things Considered 11/01/19
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with actress Jane Fonda as she protests climate change on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. Fonda has been arrested…
By Angelique Jackson 10/26/19
Jane Fonda may have just given the greatest acceptance speech of all time.
By Alex Stedman 10/25/19
Jane Fonda was arrested (again) on Friday during an ongoing climate change protest in Washington D.C., and this time was joined by Ted Danson.
By Ted Johnson 10/18/19
“People say that the Green New Deal is radical,” Waterston said at the rally. “What is radical is climate disruption.”
By Neil Vigdor 10/18/19
The 81-year-old actress was charged with unlawful demonstration and was later released on her own recognizance, Capitol Police said.
By Evan Halper and Anna M. Phillips 10/10/19
[Fonda] stopped by The Times’ Washington bureau to talk about the launch of her latest celebrity-packed action, where Jerry Brown inspired (and didn’t), and Fonda’s…
09/23/19
… Greta, and the media can’t stop covering her. She is our own Joan of Arc, a warrior and utterly unique.
10/02/19
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg chastised world leaders Monday, Sep. 23, for failing younger generations by not taking sufficient steps to stop climate change. "You…
By Philip Bump 01/23/20
The Washington Post contacted someone who did study economics in college and asked him to explain it to us.
01/21/20
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos and admonished world leaders for doing nothing about the climate…
By Somini Sengupta 01/21/20
Greta Thunberg on Tuesday punched a hole in the promises emerging from a forum of the global political and business elite and offered instead an…
By Karen Tumulty 12/12/19
Early Thursday morning, President Trump took to Twitter (where his current follower count is 67.5 million) to attack a 16-year-old girl with Asperger’s syndrome and tell…
By Karen Tumulty 12/11/19
Greta Thunberg, the teen activist from Sweden who has urged immediate action to address a global climate crisis, was named Time magazine’s person of the…
By Seth Borenstein 12/01/19
The world has gotten hotter, lost trillions of tons of ice and suffered more weather disasters since climate negotiations started
By Josephine Harvey 11/20/19
A picture from University of Washington’s archives has people joking the teen climate activist is a time-traveler here to “save us.”
By Emily Holden 11/13/19
Thunberg: ‘My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – to unite behind the science and to act on the science’
By Lee Moran 11/02/19
Actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio has paid tribute to teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, describing her as a “leader of our time.”
By AFP in Stockholm 10/29/19
The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has refused to accept an environmental award, saying the climate movement needed people in power to start to “listen”…
By Peter Sinclair 10/07/19
OWA CITY, Iowa – The adults are still failing kids, Greta Thunberg told thousands of Iowans Friday.
10/04/19
She’s right. | Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images Economically and politically, early ambition is better. When Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the elites assembled at the…
10/03/19
Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is the favorite to win the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, bookmakers have said, after she rose to lead a…
09/23/19
With tears in her eyes and her face flushed, the 16-year-old activist - who began skipping school in her native Sweden a year ago to…
By Amelia Lester 09/21/19
A few weeks ago, a 16-year-old from Sweden arrived in New York. All up, the journey took about two weeks; the Atlantic Ocean had been…
By Nick Visser 09/18/19
“We don’t want to be heard," the 16-year-old climate activist told a task force of Senate Democrats. "We want the science to be heard.”
By Somini Sengupta 10/02/19
Greta Thunberg, a climate activist from Sweden, spoke to Congress on Wednesday and submitted a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in place…
09/30/19
If you’re a grumpy old codger with an uncontrollable urge to yell at a teenage girl on TV, there’s help.
09/27/19
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg closed a two-book deal with Penguin Press, selling U.S. rights to a memoir and a collection of speeches. Thunberg, who…
09/26/19
Young people like Greta Thunberg are participating in the culture wars while also managing to float above the fray. The kids aren’t just all right…
By David Roberts 09/26/19
To her considerable and growing list of accomplishments, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg can now add another mark of distinction: She has been attacked…
By Alexandra Schwartz 09/20/19
Each generation inherits the messes made by its predecessors, and their mythologies, too. Like many nineties kids, I grew up on stories and photographs of…
09/19/19
Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have helped produce a short film highlighting the need to protect, restore and use nature to tackle the…
09/21/19
…The United National Climate Action Summit with hundreds of events taking place through NYC.
By Somini Sengupta
09/21/19
On Monday, at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, comes a glimpse of how far presidents and prime ministers are willing to go. The United…
By Sean Munger 10/22/19
A few weeks ago, on September 27, 2019, Judith Collins, a Member of Parliament from New Zealand, told a news show that she thought youth…
By Ed King 10/01/19
"We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team." I'm suffering Rugby World Cup fever…
09/27/19
NEW YORK—President Trump, speaking before the UN General Assembly Tuesday, vowed globalism is dead. A day later a roomful of suits representing some of the…
By Ellen Jackowski 09/26/19
Climate Week NYC officially kicked off Monday, but arguably last Friday‘s Global Climate Strike set the stage for this week’s agenda. Like so many, I…
09/23/19
French president Emmanuel Macron has urged world leaders to respond more urgently to climate change, as the New York climate summit opened with a dire…
By David Wallace-Wells 09/17/19
On September 23, the United Nations will open its Climate Action Summit here in New York, three days after the Global Climate Strike, led by Greta Thunberg,…
10/02/19
Global emissions are reaching record levels and show no sign of peaking. The last four years were the four hottest on record, and winter temperatures…
09/24/19
The ITUC has challenged governments at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York to make a living planet, secure jobs and decent work their…
By Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin 09/24/19
“You are failing us," 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg tells world leaders. “The eyes of all future generations are upon you.”
By Matt McGrath 09/22/19
The signs and impacts of global warming are speeding up, the latest science on climate change, published ahead of key UN talks in New York,…
By Oliver Milman 09/20/19
Donald Trump is set to attend the United Nations headquarters during Monday’s key summit on the climate crisis—but will be there to take part in…
By Zoë Carpenter 09/19/19
The United States will be a nonentity at this fall’s UN climate summit. But the 2020 election is a chance to change the game.
09/20/19
…The Climate Strike, 7.6 million kids and their grown-up allies, marching all over the world, standing up, speaking up.
By Somini Sengupta
09/20/19
Anxious about their future on a hotter planet and angry at world leaders for failing to arrest the crisis, masses of young people poured into…
09/28/19
At a total of over 7.6 million and still counting, the week of Global Climate Strikes is on par with the 2003 anti-Iraq war protest…
By Sean Munger 10/21/19
I’ve covered more speeches over the course of seven United Nations General Assemblies than I can remember. Never have I heard someone speak with such…
By Zahra Hirji 10/01/19
The Sunrise Movement is scaling up operations in Iowa and New Hampshire to mobilize young people demanding climate action to the polls in the early…
By Somini Sengupta, Susan Shain and Christopher Flavelle 09/25/19
I’ve covered more speeches over the course of seven United Nations General Assemblies than I can remember. Never have I heard someone speak with such…
By Zach D. Roberts 09/25/19
Across the country and the world last Friday, kids and adults marched and rallied in solidarity in a Climate Strike. The NYC Mayors office puts…
By Somini Sengupta 09/20/19
Around the globe, young people are demanding action on climate change in a day of protest. Meet eight of the local leaders. Their cities are…
By Sarah Kaplan 09/20/19
I was two hours and several miles from the start of New York’s climate strike, but it was already evident how big this event would…
By Khristopher J. Brooks and Jean-Paul Salamanca 09/20/19
Whether they trekked into Manhattan or traveled from school grounds to Town Hall, students on Long Island spoke up in unison Friday as youth across…
By Jake Offenhartz 09/20/19
Thousands of New York City's young people are once again taking to the streets to demand meaningful action in the face of a global climate…
By Anne Barnard 09/19/19
Hanna and Kian Joulaee, twins and fifth graders at Public School 10 in Brooklyn, spent Wednesday night decorating signs and T-shirts for a rally in…
09/16/19
…A media initiative started by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation & signed onto by 250 outlets.
By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
09/16/19
Launched by the Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation, more than 250 news outlets have embraced their initiative to report on climate change this week…
By Chelsea Harvey 12/23/21
Sen. Joe Manchin isn’t a climate denier — at least not in the traditional sense. He doesn’t deny the existence of human-caused climate change.
By Lauren Sommer 12/20/21
With billions of dollars for clean energy, the Build Back Better legislation has the potential to substantially and rapidly cut heat-trapping emissions in the U.S.…
By Astra Taylor 09/18/19
Twelve years, or so the scientists told us in 2018, which means now we are down to eleven. That’s how long we have to pull…
By Robin Young and Allison Hagan 09/17/19
Across the world, journalists are stationed from Antarctica to the Amazon covering how climate change is impacting people’s lives.
By Nancy Matsumoto 09/17/19
The public and private sectors are rapidly picking up efforts to ramp up carbon farming.
By Emily Holden 09/16/19
Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke and Amy Klobuchar to also miss the MSNBC event timed to align with global climate strikes
By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope 07/26/19
“Can we tell the story so people get it?” That’s the mission TV newsman Bill Moyers urged at the launch of Covering Climate Now, a…
09/08/19
…Jonathan Franzen and his article in New York Magazine on the climate apocalypse.
By Jonathan Franzen
09/08/19
The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it. The struggle to rein in global carbon…
By Sigal Samuel 09/11/19
Scientists are pissed at the novelist — and at the New Yorker for publishing him. Jonathan Franzen writes about climate change. Twitter erupts in anger.…
By Eric Levitz 09/10/19
Nine months ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told a crowd at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we…
By Brian Kahn 09/09/19
Inexplicably, Jonathan Franzen and the New Yorker have come back for another round of being complete dumbasses about climate change.
By Alison Flood 09/09/19
‘As a non-scientist, I do my own kind of modelling,’ claimed the author in the New Yorker, sparking a flurry of mockery online
By Taylor Nicole Rogers 09/09/19
Scientists and climate experts are furious after a New Yorker opinion column declared the fight against climate change useless.
By Donald J. Trump
02/13/20
In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated. Looking like one of…
By NWS
09/01/19
Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too…
By Douglas MacMillan 04/21/22
Companies are eager to tout their environmental progress on Earth Day. Here are five tips for investigating whether their claims tell the full story.
By Jane McMullen and Patrice Taddonio 04/19/22
It was the 1990s, and scientific understanding of how burning fossil fuels would change the Earth’s climate was mounting. So, too, was a chorus of…
By Amy Westervelt 04/12/22
Of the primary reports that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change publishes every four to six years, the mitigation report, focused on what can be…
By Leon Kaye 04/07/22
Many of the social media platforms that surround us seem innocuous enough. They give us the options to share what we had for breakfast, the…
By Michael Khoo 04/04/22
The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirm that “climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting…
By Lawrence Carter 07/01/21
ExxonMobil ran a behind the scenes US lobbying campaign against legislative efforts to restrict the use of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”, one of the oil…
By Lawrence Carter 06/30/21
ExxonMobil continues to fight efforts to tackle climate change in the United States, despite publicly claiming to support the Paris climate agreement, an undercover investigation…
By Lisa Friedman 09/11/19
A congressional committee opened an inquiry on Wednesday into a report that the secretary of commerce, Wilbur L. Ross Jr., coerced the head of a…
By Christopher Flavelle 09/10/19
Neil Jacobs, head of the federal scientific agency threatened with firings after one of its offiThe Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at…
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs 09/10/19
Neil Jacobs, head of the federal scientific agency threatened with firings after one of its offices contradicted President Trump on Hurricane Dorian, defended the administration…
