PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT 2022
12/17/22 ...Nuclear Fusion NOT Nuclear Fission
By Robin McKie 12/17/22
The revelation that researchers had succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion reaction that generated more energy than it consumed made reassuring reading last week. For almost half a century, I have reported on scientific issues…
By John Mecklin 12/16/22
This week’s headlines have been full of reports about a “major breakthrough” in nuclear fusion technology that, many of those reports misleadingly suggested, augurs a…
By Sabine Hossenfelder 12/16/22
On Dec. 5, 192 lasers at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California fired a synchronized shot at a golden…
By Aylin Woodward 12/15/22
The Energy Department said Tuesday that scientists had achieved a breakthrough in research on nuclear fusion, bringing them one step closer to possibly changing the…
By Justine Calma 12/15/22
Nuclear fusion is back in the news. This week, the US Department of Energy announced what it called a “major scientific breakthrough” in fusion power…
12/14/22
For the first time, scientists have produced a fusion reaction that created more energy than was expended, a breakthrough to tap into the same kind…
By Henry Fountain 12/13/22
The news this week that scientists had achieved a breakthrough in fusion technology was hailed as a milestone on the path toward a future of…
By Ella Nilsen and Rene Marsh 12/13/22
For the first time ever, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California successfully produced a nuclear fusion…
By Joel Achenbach and Evan Halper 12/13/22
The creation of what amounts to a miniature star required 192 lasers, produced in a high-security federal government building the size of a football stadium.…
By Christopher Helman 12/13/22
N uclear fusion has long been the Holy Grail of truly clean energy. The smashing together of hydrogen atoms promises limitless electricity with zero carbon…
12/16/22 ...The UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) —12/7-12/19
11/18/22
This December, the race to protect the planet's biodiversity will be front and center when representatives from countries around the world gather in Montreal, Canada, for the United Nation's Biodiversity Conference, referred to as COP15.
By Benji Jones 12/20/22
On a busy street downtown is a life-size ice sculpture of a polar bear. It’s melting, revealing a fearsome-looking bronze skeleton underneath. Designed by artist…
By Aruna Chandrasekhar et al. 12/20/22
Almost 200 countries have agreed to a new set of goals and targets to “halt and reverse” biodiversity loss by the end of the decade.…
By Reuters and Joe Loe 12/19/22
The Chinese presidency gavelled through a biodiversity pact in Montreal, overriding the funding concerns of some African delegates The post Cop15 global nature deal passes…
By Patrick Greenfield and Phoebe Weston 12/18/22
A potentially transformational agreement for nature is close to being reached at Cop15 in Montreal, which could bring better protection for Earth’s vital ecosystems such…
By Michael Casey 12/18/22
Negotiators at a United Nations biodiversity conference Saturday have still not resolved most of the key issues around protecting the world's nature by 2030 and…
By Patrick Greenfield and Phoebe Weston 12/18/22
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has called on countries to “go big” in negotiations at Cop15, as the talks to secure the next decade of…
By Madeleine Cuff 12/16/22
Environment ministers from a coalition of countries including Canada, the UK, Costa Rica and France have urged negotiators at the COP15 summit to rally behind…
By Catrin Einhorn and Lauren Leatherby 12/09/22
WILDLIFE IS DISAPPEARING around the world, in the oceans and on land. The main cause on land is perhaps the most straightforward: Humans are taking…
By Dino Grandoni 12/09/22
Diplomats are meeting in Montreal at a biodiversity conference this month to see whether they can rescue species from extinction....
By Shahid Naeem, Yonglong Lu and Jeremy Jackson 12/07/22
On 7 December of this year, the fate of the entire living world will be determined in Montreal, Canada, at the 15th Conference of the…
By Damian Carrington 12/07/22
The “fate of the entire living world” will be determined at the Cop15 UN biodiversity summit, according to leading scientists. They said the gathering of…
By Joseph Lee 12/07/22
Indigenous leaders from around the world are calling for a bigger role in negotiations at the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference which convenes today in Montreal.…
By Phoebe Weston 12/05/22
Letter says bioenergy is wrongly deemed ‘carbon neutral’ and contributes to wildlife lossMore than 650 scientists are urging world leaders to stop burning trees to…
By Michael Taylor 11/28/22
Hard on the heels of this month's fractious COP27 climate talks in Egypt, exhausted environmentalists are shifting their attention to another upcoming U.N. green summit,…
12/06/22 …The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
By Andrew Ross Sorkin et al. 12/06/22
The European Union is crying foul over the Inflation Reduction Act, saying the billions in climate subsidies it offers create a trade imbalance.
08/22/22
This table includes provisions with the potential to provide federal benefits to communities with EJ concerns. Direct benefits, where the statute requires benefits to be…
By Somini Sengupta 08/19/22
The Inflation Reduction Act is a very big deal for the United States. It’s the biggest climate law in the country’s history. It’s a lot…
By Shannon Osaka 08/18/22
The Inflation Reduction Act — the health care and climate bill that was signed into law by President Biden on Tuesday — marks the largest…
By Jennifer A Dlouhy 08/18/22
President Joe Biden’s signing of the Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday caps nearly two years of efforts to pass sweeping climate legislation. But the real…
By Jim Tankersley 08/18/22
Those calculations — and a host of others pertaining to the red-hot electric vehicle market — come courtesy of an energy, tax and health care…
By Seth Borenstein 08/18/22
Clean energy incentives in the new spending package signed this week by President Joe Biden will trim America’s emissions of heat-trapping gases by about 1.1…
By Akshat Rathi 08/17/22
The billionaire philanthropist was among those lobbying Joe Manchin, starting before Biden took the White House. A look at the influencers who secured a rare…
By Jason Bordoff 08/17/22
U.S. President Joe Biden just signed into law a signature domestic policy achievement: the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). At its heart is nearly $400 billion…
By David Roberts 08/17/22
Last week, I hosted a podcast discussion with Princeton professor Jesse Jenkins and UC-Santa Barbara professor Leah Stokes about the climate and energy provisions in…
By Maxine Joselow 08/16/22
In 1981, as a young lawmaker, former vice president Al Gore held what some experts think was the first congressional hearing on climate change.
By Jameson Dow 08/16/22
The Inflation Reduction Act, the major climate bill, was signed today, changing the availability of electric vehicle tax credits. Now, only EVs assembled in North…
By Catherine Morehouse 08/16/22
The climate legislation President Joe Biden signed on Tuesday became law without the approval of a single Republican in Congress — but it’s still poised…
By Sam Taube 08/16/22
Despite its name, the Inflation Reduction Act is largely a climate spending bill. The bill, signed by President Joe Biden on Aug. 16, represents the…
By Jeff St. John 08/16/22
The $369 billion in climate and energy funding in the Inflation Reduction Act isn’t just the biggest-ever U.S. investment in combatting climate change. It also…
By Jim Tankersley 08/16/22
President Biden on Tuesday signed a long-awaited bill meant to reduce health costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and raise taxes on corporations and wealthy investors,…
08/16/22
President Joe Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill that will invest $369 billion in climate solutions and environmental justice. The bill will…
08/16/22
By signing the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden is delivering on his promise to build an economy that works for working families, including Latino communities.…
By Ethan Howland 08/15/22
The bill contains tax, healthcare and climate provisions, including about $369 billion in spending over 10 years on energy and climate measures. In a measure…
By Robert Rapier 08/14/22
Last week Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which now heads to President Biden's desk to be signed into law. The bill has been championed…
By Francesca Paris, Alicia Parlapiano and Others 08/13/22
Democrats in Congress have had to scale back their legislative ambitions since last year, but the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by the House on Friday…
By Alan Fram 08/13/22
A divided Congress gave final approval Friday to Democrats’ flagship climate and health care bill, handing President Joe Biden a back-from-the-dead triumph on coveted priorities…
By Jeff Stein 08/13/22
Travis Elswick used to spend his days detonating millions of tons of explosives, blowing holes in the Appalachian Mountains so miners could reach the coal…
By Robinson Meyer 08/13/22
The Inflation Reduction Act, passed by the House of Representatives today, is about to become the first comprehensive climate legislation in U.S. history. Compared with…
By Alexander C. Kaufman 08/13/22
Democrats’ deal to spend billions on clean energy tax credits could spur development of enough carbon-cutting infrastructure to slash planet-heating emissions in the world’s largest…
By Tony Romm 08/12/22
The successful vote Friday marked the end of a debate that spanned more than a year and a half, at times pitting Democrats against each…
By Louis Sahagun 08/12/22
Even today, as California struggles with severe drought, global warming has doubled the likelihood that weather conditions will unleash a deluge as devastating as the…
By Emily Cochrane 08/12/22
The passage of the bill, which appeared dead just weeks ago, caps a Democratic effort to deliver on major components of President Biden’s agenda.
By Alan Fram 08/12/22
A divided Congress gave final approval Friday to Democrats’ flagship climate and health care bill, handing President Joe Biden a back-from-the-dead triumph on coveted priorities…
By Alan Fram 08/12/22
A divided Congress gave final approval Friday to Democrats’ flagship climate and health care bill, handing President Biden a back-from-the-dead triumph on coveted priorities that…
By Julian Spector 08/12/22
The relatively young energy-storage industry will get a proper seat at the clean energy policy table thanks to the Democrats’ climate bill, which passed both…
By Eric Wesoff 08/12/22
Now that the Democrats’ major climate and tax bill has been passed, the United States might actually end up with an effective industrial policy for…
By Samantha Maldonado 08/12/22
New York could see an infusion of funds to help reach its climate goals, if the House of Representatives follows in the Senate’s footsteps to…
By Sahil Kapur 08/12/22
The House passed a far-reaching Democratic bill Friday to combat climate change, extend health care coverage and raise taxes on corporations, voting along party lines…
By Clare Foran and Others 08/12/22
The House of Representatives voted Friday to pass Democrats' $750 billion health care, energy and climate bill, in a significant victory for President Joe Biden…
By Maria Gallucci 08/12/22
As aviation companies develop the first hydrogen-powered jets and electric regional aircraft, a more immediate way to curb the industry’s climate pollution is to burn…
12/01/22 …Drought Dries up the West
By Joshua Partlow 12/01/22
The first sign of serious trouble for the drought-stricken American Southwest could be a whirlpool. It could happen if the surface of Lake Powell, a man-made reservoir along the Colorado River that’s already a quarter…
By Raymond Zhong 04/13/23
Flash droughts, the kind that arrive quickly and can lay waste to crops in a matter of weeks, are becoming more common and faster to…
By Joshua Partlow 04/03/23
The abundant snow in the Rocky Mountains this year has been a welcome relief, but is not enough to overcome two decades of drought that…
By Rachel Ramirez and Brandon Miller 03/27/23
California has faced an onslaught of powerful, atmospheric river storms this winter, which has led to record-breaking snowpack, nearly full reservoirs and overflowing watersheds. At…
By Elena Shao, Mira Rojanasakul and Nadja Popovich 03/17/23
Torrential rain and snow have again drenched California in recent weeks, amplifying an already wet winter season. The extreme precipitation has begun to ease the…
By Andrew Freedman 03/16/23
With California’s mountains buried under a historically deep snowpack and more storms on the way, the latest drought outlook from NOAA shows continuing improvement in…
By Whitney Clark 01/18/23
Farming thousands of acres of alfalfa, Bermuda grass, and more, isn’t just a job for Jace Miller: it’s in his blood. “My great-great-grandfather came and…
12/05/22
America's largest rivers are reaching their lowest levels ever, threatening water access for millions. CBS News anchor Anne-Marie Green breaks down the ongoing water scarcity…
By Joshua Partlow 11/14/22
Wes Harmon’s ringtone sounds like a steam whistle, and it goes off in the cab of his Ford Super Duty at such regularity and volume…
By Rachel Nuwer 11/01/22
The strange, barren spots pepper the vast Namib Desert, which stretches from southern Angola to northern South Africa. They are known as “fairy circles,” and…
By Scott Dance 10/12/22
The Mississippi River is flowing at its lowest level in at least a decade, and until rain relieves a worsening drought in the region, it’s…
By Drew Costley 10/06/22
Drought that stretched across three continents this summer — drying out large parts of Europe, the United States and China — was made 20 times…
10/05/22
Western Central Europe, North America, China, and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere faced water shortages, extreme heat, and soil moisture drought conditions throughout the…
By Sueellen Campbell 09/22/22
National TV, cable, and other mass media outlets have been brimming with news that much of the American West is into its longest drought in…
By Annette McGivney 09/22/22
In June 2021, Marlene and Emron Esplin stopped watering their front lawn. Given that the Esplins live in Utah, where maintaining lush green turf is…
By Kirk Siegler 09/22/22
These days it can feel almost cliche to throw around the word "dystopian." But it's hard not to use it while standing on the narrow…
09/21/22
Typically, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) starts its North American wildfires profile in the summer or even fall. However, as climate change increasingly has…
09/20/22
The data cutoff for Drought Monitor maps is each Tuesday at 8 a.m. EDT. The maps, which are based on analysis of the data, are…
By Chris Outcalt And Brittany Peterson 09/13/22
On the 100-year anniversary of the seven states' initial Colorado River Compact, The Associated Press and partner media outlets in the U.S. West are publishing…
By Dylan Baddour 09/05/22
This summer, the Rio Grande dried up in places that it never had before. For more than 100 miles through wild and scenic country, its…
By Emily Mae Czachor 09/04/22
The American West is facing its most severe drought in human history. Research suggests conditions are drier now than they have been for at least…
By Kasha Patel and Tim Meko 09/03/22
Like an unhinged seesaw, this summer’s rainfall has teetered between too much and too little across the United States. Record-high rainfall in pockets of the…
By Andrew Moore 08/29/22
Over the course of nearly three months in 2020, the August Complex Fire, fueled by extreme heat and severe drought conditions, burned more than a…
By Abrahm Lustgarten 08/25/22
The western United States is, famously, in the grips of its worst megadrought in a millennium. The Colorado River, which supplies water to more than…
By Artem Golub and Others 08/23/22
This place is dustier than your ex-boyfriend who didn’t have a job.
08/17/22
In the last week of July 2022, a 5-mile stretch of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico, ran dry for the first time in…
By Joshua Partlow and Others 08/16/22
As the historic drought in the U.S. Southwest pushes the nation’s largest reservoirs to record lows, the Biden administration Tuesday announced that water shortages along…
By Jennifer Oldham 08/10/22
Michael Jones ducked under an idle sprinkler and strode across the sandy soil where he planned to plant drought-resistant crops, hoping to save water amid…
By Victoria Masterson 08/02/22
Images from space show water levels falling dramatically at Lake Mead, the biggest reservoir in the United States.
By Winston Choi-Schagrin 07/22/22
In 2000, Lake Mead was full of deep, midnight-blue water that flooded the banks of the rivers that fed it. But 20 years later, it…
By Henry Fountain 07/21/22
States in the Colorado River basin are scrambling to propose steep cuts in the water they’ll use from the river next year, in response to…
By Henry Fountain 07/21/22
States in the Colorado River basin are scrambling to propose steep cuts in the water they’ll use from the river next year, in response to…
07/11/22
June kicked off a very warm and dry start to meteorological summer for the U.S., according to experts from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.
By Ian James and Others 07/07/22
California regulators have begun curtailing the water rights of many farms and irrigation districts along the Sacramento River, forcing growers to stop diverting water from…
By James Rainey 06/30/22
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, June 30. I’m state enterprise reporter Jim Rainey, checking in from the San Gabriel…
By Amy Cheng 06/16/22
Thousands of cattle in Kansas have died in recent days due to high heat and humidity, dealing a blow to one of the country’s leading…
By Aruna Chandrasekhar and Others 11/24/22
The COP27 summit in the Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh made history by including food, rivers, nature-based solutions, tipping points and the right to a healthy environment in an overarching COP “cover decision” for…
By Bob Berwyn 11/24/22
Amid fighting over croissants and climate, the UN’s COP27 mirrored a world that can’t come together to break free of fossil fuels and avoid a…
By Sarah Kaplan 11/20/22
The final decision of the U.N. Climate Conference in Egypt made little progress on emissions-cutting measures that could avert worse disasters to come....
By Brad Plumer, Lisa Friedman, Max Bearak and Jenny Gross 11/19/22
After 30 years of deadlock, a new U.N. climate agreement aims to pay developing countries for loss and damage caused by global warming. But huge…
By Bill McKibben 11/19/22
The climate summit just concluding in Egypt ran hard into one of the world’s greatest structural problems: most of the money is in the Global…
By Lisa Friedman and Jim Tankersley 11/11/22
President Biden appeared before an overflowing United Nations convention on Friday to reclaim America’s role as a leader on climate change and to stress a…
By Siobhán O'Grady 11/11/22
President Biden pledged that the United States will “do our part to avert” a “climate hell,” citing a warning by the U.N. secretary general earlier…
By Simon Jessop 11/11/22
Countries representing more than half of the global economy on Friday specified the steps they will take to help accelerate the low-carbon transition by cutting…
By Pranshu Verma 11/11/22
Homes built out of bamboo shoots. Zero-emission hydrogen fuels for cars and jets. Small nuclear reactors to power Africa. Restoring ocean mangroves to store carbon.
By Sarah Kaplan 11/11/22
Nations will likely burn through their remaining carbon budget in less than a decade if they do not significantly reduce greenhouse gas pollution, a new…
By Brad Plumer 11/10/22
Global emissions from fossil fuels are likely to reach record highs this year, new data shows, putting nations further off track from stopping global warming.
By Oliver Milman and Nina Lakhani 11/10/22
Nancy Pelosi has accused Republicans of treating the climate crisis like “it’s all a hoax” while at the Cop27 climate talks in Egypt, where the…
By Robinson Meyer 11/09/22
This week, tens of thousands of diplomats, activists, and world leaders are gathering in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the annual United Nations climate summit, known…
By Adam Morton 11/08/22
A UN group set up to crack down on the greenwashing of net zero pledges by industry and government has called for “red lines” to…
By Sarah Kaplan 11/07/22
Last year’s United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, had the same optimistic energy as the first day of a new school year. The United…
By Evan Halper and Others 11/07/22
With war, inflation and electoral chaos preoccupying world leaders, the Biden administration is looking for corporations to take center stage as the U.N. Climate Change…
By Joe Lo 11/07/22
As a pledge from last year’s UN climate summit to save forests firms up into an active partnership, most signatories have dropped out. At Cop26…
By Allyson Chiu and Others 11/07/22
U.N. Secretary General António Guterres called for the creation of a “climate solidarity pact” between wealthier and developing countries to meet key climate goals in…
By Cora Engelbrecht 11/07/22
The decision to include Coca-Cola as a major sponsor of this year’s United Nations climate summit in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, has angered many climate…
By Hiroko Tabuchi 11/07/22
Switzerland, one of the world’s richest nations, has an ambitious climate goal: It promises to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. But…
By Brad Plumer 11/07/22
A year ago, at the United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow, heads of state and business leaders made a long list of splashy promises…
By Brad Plumer, Lisa Friedman and Somini Sengupta 11/06/22
In Pakistan, flooding this summer killed 1,700 people and left one-third of the country underwater. In Fiji, entire villages are retreating inland to escape rising…
By Patrick Greenfield 11/05/22
The big three tropical rainforest nations – Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – are in talks to form a strategic alliance…
By Ellen Francis and Adela Suliman 11/05/22
Tens of thousands of people from around the globe will descend on Egypt starting Sunday for the annual United Nations climate change summit.
By Somini Sengupta 11/04/22
The most important lesson I’ve learned as a global climate correspondent is this: The most acute impacts of climate change are often felt by those…
11/04/22
Each of the 197 signatories to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has its own concerns and interests, which can make reaching any…
By Lisa Friedman 11/04/22
World leaders will gather in Egypt next week to confront climate change at a moment of colliding crises: a war in Europe that has upended…
By Brady Dennis and Harry Stevens 11/03/22
Last fall, at a high-profile global climate summit in Scotland, the countries of the world embraced what seemed like a significant commitment in the quest…
By Aruna Chandrasekhar and others 11/02/22
Thousands of diplomats and officials from all over the world will soon arrive at the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh for COP27. There, they…
By Bob Berwyn 11/01/22
Last year’s annual global climate conference in Glasgow ended with a Hail Mary promise to cut methane emissions fast enough to avoid up to a…
10/31/22
The database currently lists 412 experts from 80 countries. The map below shows the nationalities of the respondents, where larger circles indicate a greater number…
By Shannon Osaka 10/31/22
Greta Thunberg, the activist from Sweden, was catapulted to worldwide fame at a climate conference. In 2018, the then-15-year-old wandered the halls of a United…
By Chloé Farand 10/28/22
Egypt is facing strong geopolitical headwinds to keep the world delivering on its climate commitments. Hiked food and fuel prices, ballooning debt and economic downturn…
By Chloé Farand and Joe Lo 10/28/22
In the two weeks ahead of the Cop27 summit in Egypt, every group of climate wonks has a report out on the state of the…
11/10/22 …Hurricanes and Flooding
By Amudalat Ajasa 11/10/22
2022′s hurricanes Nicole and Ian hit in same respective locations as 2004′s Jeanne and Charley; in both years, the storms struck 43 days apart...
By Jeff Masters 11/10/22
Hurricane Nicole made landfall around 3 a.m. EST November 10 near Vero Beach, Florida, with sustained winds of 75 mph and a central pressure of…
By Andrew Freedman and Others 10/17/22
The killer app for hurricane prediction? It could be lightweight drones that explore some of the fiercest parts of a hurricane and send back real-time…
By Christopher Flavelle 10/13/22
The hurricane’s record-breaking cost will make it even harder for many to get insurance, experts say — threatening home sales, mortgages and construction.
By Niala Boodhoo 10/11/22
More than 4 million Floridians lost power after Hurricane Ian. But not communities like Babcock Ranch, a Southwest Florida development that bills itself as America’s…
10/09/22
While hard-hit Fort Myers, Florida, continues its recovery from Hurricane Ian, some hope can be found 12 miles to the northeast at the planned community…
By Mitch Smith and Others 10/07/22
A 57-year-old woman in the Sarasota area developed hypothermia and died after her roof caved in and she became stuck in floodwaters. A 96-year-old man…
By Van R. Newkirk 2 10/07/22
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By Kelli Maria Korducki 10/06/22
Vann R. Newkirk II, our senior editor and Floodlines podcast host, told me, “Some of the fastest-growing areas in the country have really intense flood…
By Rebecca Halleck and Others 10/04/22
Hurricane Ian’s menace sent homeowners around Florida scurrying to safer parts while their technology stood sentry. Home camera security systems served as the unflinching eyes…
10/03/22
Hurricane season quickly flipped a switch in recent weeks from one of the quietest starts in decades to a pair of devastating storms: Ian and…
By Zachary Shahan 10/02/22
There is no shortage of crazy stories coming out of the path of Hurricane Ian. (I’ve got my own from my area of Southwest Florida,…
By Tim Craig 10/01/22
Search and rescue efforts continued along Florida’s west coast as residents confronted the sweeping devastation and rising death toll wrought by Hurricane Ian, one of…
By Brian K . Sullivan and Others 10/01/22
Ian lost its hurricane status after pummeling South Carolina with violent winds and a deadly storm surge, knocking out power to tens of thousands in…
By Anna Phillips 10/01/22
Officials in Charleston, S.C., are clear that climate change poses an existential threat. They are working on plans to build a $1.1 billion sea wall…
By Jennifer Reed and Others 09/30/22
Mitch Pacyna and his wife had weathered other hurricanes in their 27 years on this sandy stripe of barrier island and decided to ride out…
09/30/22
Ian, now a hurricane again, is threatening to carve a new path of destruction through South Carolina Friday when it roars ashore north of Charleston.…
By Scott Dance 09/29/22
An unprecedented number of storms rated Category 4 or stronger have lashed the U.S. shoreline in recent years.
By Nina Lakahani 09/29/22
“It’s all about the water,” warned meteorologists as Hurricane Fiona battered Puerto Rico last week and as category 4 Hurricane Ian edged closer and eventually…
By Solcyre Burga 09/29/22
Hurricane Ian devastated southern Florida on Wednesday afternoon when it hit as a Category 4 storm, causing intense flooding and leaving 2.5 million Floridians without…
By Elena Shao 09/28/22
Even as some parts of Florida’s coast experience a catastrophic surge of seawater over their shores, Hurricane Ian has pushed water out of Tampa Bay,…
By Wyatt Loy 08/26/22
From the Desert Southwest to the southern Plains and Midwest, epic deluges have been an unfortunately common occurrence over the past month.
By Raymond Zhong 08/12/22
California, where earthquakes, droughts and wildfires have shaped life for generations, also faces the growing threat of another kind of calamity, one whose fury would…
By Sophie Kasakove 09/10/21
Christine Verdin received numerous photos from friends and family of the destruction Hurricane Ida brought to the rural community of Pointe-aux-Chenes, which runs along a…
By Giulia Heyward and Sophie Kasakove 09/09/21
With the vast majority of lights now on in New Orleans, city officials on Thursday were prepared for the next phase in navigating the aftermath…
By Justin Worland 09/07/21
For many climate reporters, myself included, the arrival of Hurricane Ida brought a recognizable pit to the stomach. The details of the stories emerging as…
09/05/21
Hurricane Larry, the 12th named storm of the busy 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane on Friday night in the eastern…
By Bob Henson and Jeff Masters 09/03/21
At least 48 people have died in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast as a result of flooding and tornadoes associated with Post-Tropical Cyclone Ida, and the…
By Bobby Caina Calvan, David Porter And Jennifer Peltz 09/03/21
A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers and tornado damage Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region…
By Alejandro De La Garza 09/02/21
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans in late August 2005, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was tasked with building a…
By Bob Henson and Jeff Masters 09/02/21
Some of the worst urban flash flooding in U.S. history struck the New York City area on Wednesday night, as the remnants of once-category 4…
By Andy Newman 09/02/21
Three days after Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana, its weakened remnants tore into the Northeast and claimed at least 43 lives across New York,…
By Robert S. Young 09/02/21
Hurricane Ida, which on Sunday struck the coast of Louisiana near Port Fourchon as a very strong Category 4 storm, will teach us many lessons.…
By Zack Colman 09/01/21
Hurricane Ida’s lashing of Louisiana is supercharging a fight in Washington over spending tens of billions of dollars to protect the U.S. from future storms.
By AP 09/01/21
Entergy said Wednesday that it is slowly adding power back to New Orleans, and the pace of that work will determine how quickly the region’s…
By Jeff Masters and Bob Henson 08/28/21
After making landfall in western Cuba on Friday night as a category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds, Hurricane Ida is now in the Gulf…
10/13/22 …wildlife populations plunging by almost 70% in 50 years…while human populations double
Image By CCR + AI By Rob Alkemade, Francisco Alpfzar and Others 10/13/22
The Living Planet Report 2022 is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. This flagship WWF publication reveals an average decline of 69% in species populations since 1970.…
By Bill McKibben 10/14/22
A vast new study finds there are 70 percent fewer wild animals sharing the earth with us than there were in 1970. A vast new…
By Joe Hernandez 10/14/22
Global animal populations are declining, and we've got limited time to try to fix it. That's the upshot of a new report from the World…
By Patrick Greenfield 10/13/22
Earth’s wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 69% in just under 50 years, according to a leading scientific assessment, as humans continue to…
By Eric Mack 10/13/22
On average, most wildlife species number less than a third what they did in 1970, during a period when we added over four billion humans…
By Hannah Ritchie 10/13/22
The Living Planet Index is the biodiversity metric that always claims the headlines. Unfortunately many of these headlines are wrong. The index is very easy…
By Julia Jacobo 10/13/22
Drastic declines in animal species over the past several decades paints a grim picture for the future of healthy ecosystems, which in turn impact human…
By Catrin Einhorn 10/12/22
It’s clear that wildlife is suffering mightily on our planet, but scientists don’t know exactly how much. A comprehensive figure is exceedingly hard to determine.…
07/21/22 …the national climate emergency declaration….that wasn’t
By Isaac Saul 07/21/22
Biden's climate change plan. Democrats had hoped to invest as much as $550 billion in their sweeping Build Back Better plan to create new programs to cut emissions and promote the use of technologies like…
By Elena Shao 07/21/22
President Biden faces growing calls from members of his own party to declare climate change a national emergency, which would unlock certain temporary powers to…
By Rachel Frazin 07/21/22
Facing mounting pressure to act on climate change and little hope of passing major legislation, President Biden may soon declare a national climate emergency. The…
By Coral Davenport and Others 07/20/22
President Biden said on Wednesday that he would expand existing federal programs to help Americans cope with the extreme heat wrought by climate change, even…
By Dino Grandoni 07/20/22
Climate change, as many activists and politicians say, is an emergency. President Biden may soon make that official. Biden is weighing declaring a national climate…
By Lauren Leffer 07/20/22
President Biden did not, in fact, issue a climate emergency declaration today. Instead, he announced a much less robust set of climate-adjacent executive actions. These…
By Ben Adler 07/20/22
In the wake of Sen. Joe Manchin’s announcement that he won’t vote for a bill addressing climate change unless inflation slows next month, climate leaders…
07/20/22
President Biden announced a series of executive actions targeting the climate crisis today, and while he described the crisis as “an emergency,” he stopped short…
By Bill McKibben 07/20/22
Jeff Stein of the Washington Post had a genuine scoop yesterday—President Biden, stung by Joe Manchin’s brushoff of climate legislation, was weighing whether to declare…
By Lisa Friedman and others 07/19/22
President Biden will travel Wednesday to a shuttered coal-fired power plant that is now part of an offshore wind project in Massachusetts, where he is…
By Tony Romm and Others 07/19/22
President Biden is considering whether to declare a national climate emergency in the coming weeks, as he seeks to salvage his stalled environmental agenda and…
By David Smith and Chris Stein 07/19/22
Joe Biden is under pressure to declare a national climate emergency as temperatures soar across the US and Europe. Facing political gridlock in Washington, the…
By Kelsey Brugger and others 07/19/22
The White House could soon declare a climate emergency to give President Joe Biden more power to act without Congress’ help. When negotiations with Sen.…
By Jean Su and Maya Golden-Krasner 02/07/22
The climate emergency presents a “code red for humanity,”1 and its devastating impacts are already here. More than 40% of Americans live in a county…
07/15/22 ...Joe Manchin, once again, tanks climate legislation
By Tony Romm and Jeff Stein 07/15/22
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) told Democratic leaders Thursday he would not support an economic package this month that contains new spending on climate change or new tax increases targeting wealthy individuals and corporations, marking…
07/28/22
A proposed climate and energy package would require massive oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, reinstate an illegal 2021 Gulf…
By Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O'Sullivan 07/25/22
Last week, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin seemingly dashed Democrats’ hopes for congressional action to slow climate change. Sen. Bernie Sanders accused Manchin of “sabotag[ing] the…
By Robinson Meyer 07/20/22
When I started writing about climate change a few years ago, I tried to give readers regular dollops of hope with their gruel. I focused…
By Paul Krugman 07/18/22
Texas is often hot, but not like this: Current forecasts have the temperature in Dallas hitting 109 degrees Tuesday, with highs in triple digits well…
By Chris Mooney and Others 07/18/22
In 101 months, the United States will have achieved President Biden’s most important climate promise — or it will have fallen short. Right now it…
By Leah C. Stokes 07/16/22
Over the past year and a half, I’ve dissected every remark I could find in the press from Senator Joe Manchin on climate change. With…
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy & Others 07/15/22
Before Senator Joe Manchin slammed the brakes on broad climate legislation, Biden administration officials had sought to keep talks alive by slow-walking some controversial energy…
By Coral Davenport 07/15/22
With the largest and most powerful tools that President Biden had hoped to use to fight climate change now stripped away, the White House is…
By Emily Cochrane 07/15/22
It was a familiar, if excruciating, position for Democrats. A day after pulling the plug on his party’s plans to pass a climate, energy and…
By Jim Tankersley and others 07/15/22
President Biden bowed to political reality on Friday, conceding that he had been unable to persuade a holdout coal-state Democrat, or any Republicans in the…
By Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman 07/15/22
First, he killed a plan that would have forced power plants to clean up their climate-warming pollution. Then, he shattered an effort to help consumers…
By Betsy Klein and others 07/15/22
President Joe Biden vowed Friday to take "strong executive action" in response to moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin torpedoing his party's efforts toward writing sweeping…
By Sahil Kapur, Frank Thorp V and Julie Tsirkin 07/15/22
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and his staff told Democratic leadership on Thursday that he's not willing to support major climate and tax provisions in a…
By Ari Natter, Steven T. Dennis, and Colin Wilhelm 07/15/22
Senator Joe Manchin told Democratic leaders Thursday he would not support new spending on climate measures or tax increases, delivering a potentially fatal blow to…
By Kat Bouza 07/15/22
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will oppose his party’s proposed economic package due to its inclusion of tax increases on corporations and the wealthy and funding…
By Alan Fram 07/15/22
Sen. Joe Manchin has said he’ll oppose an economic measure he’s been negotiating with Democratic leaders if it includes climate or energy provisions or higher…
By Emily Cochrane 07/14/22
Call it the incredible shrinking domestic policy initiative. As Democrats toil to salvage pieces of President Biden’s sweeping social policy, climate change and tax package…
By Emily Cochrane and Lisa Friedman 07/14/22
Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, pulled the plug on Thursday on negotiations to salvage key pieces of President Biden’s agenda, informing his…
By Coral Davenport, Lisa Friedman and Hiroko Tabuchi 07/12/22
The West Virginia senator, who holds the swing vote in negotiations for a budget plan, wants to cut incentives. The president and most Senate Democrats…
By Alison Durkee 06/30/22
The Supreme Court has made it more challenging for the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases and fight climate change, as justices ruled Thursday…
By Christopher Flavelle and Julie Tate 03/27/22
On a hilltop overlooking Paw Paw Creek, 15 miles south of the Pennsylvania border, looms a fortresslike structure with a single smokestack, the only viable…
01/05/22
West Virginia senator Joe Manchin voiced support for climate provisions in the Build Back Better Act Tuesday, telling reporters, “The climate thing is one that…
10/20/21
West Virginia senator Joe Manchin’s objection to a key climate provision of Democrats’ infrastructure legislation would benefit many of his most important constituents. West Virginians,…
06/30/22 ...the Supreme Court hobbles the EPA and cooks the planet
By Maxine Joselow 06/30/22
The Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions could have far-reaching consequences, according to legal experts, which could curb President Biden’s ambitious plans to tackle climate change along…
06/30/22
In 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgated the Clean Power Plan rule, which addressed carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal- and natural-gas-fired power plants. For authority, the Agency cited Section 111 of the Clean…
By Pamela King 07/18/22
Environmental lawyers say the Supreme Court sent a clear message in its landmark ruling in West Virginia v. EPA: If a federal agency wants to…
By John Holdren 07/18/22
The only apparent reasons for the Supreme Court to take the case were (1) to allow the Court’s most radical majority in modern times to…
07/10/22
In light of the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday in West Virginia v. EPA, there are two fundamental truths to understand. The first is that the…
By Lisa Friedman 07/07/22
“While the Court sided with special interests trying to take the country backwards, it did not take away E.P.A.’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases and…
By Maggie Astor 07/07/22
Legislators in Colorado, historically a major coal state, have passed more than 50 climate-related laws since 2019. The liquor store in the farming town of…
By Maxine Joselow 07/06/22
When the Supreme Court limited the Environmental Protection Agency's power to combat climate change last week, Republican attorneys general and conservative legal activists cheered the…
By Allison Fisher and Ted MacDonald 07/01/22
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency vastly curtails the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, thus…
By Climatexchange Staff 07/01/22
In a 6–3 ruling released Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down the EPA’s ability to broadly regulate emissions. This decision will make it exceedingly difficult…
By Andrew Ross Sorkin 07/01/22
The Supreme Court yesterday limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate power plant emissions, dealing a significant blow to the Biden administration’s climate change…
By Bill McKibben 07/01/22
A reasonable reaction to the week’s Supreme Court rulings, which culminated in Thursday’s gutting of the Clean Air Act, would be: we are so screwed.
By Mark Sherman 07/01/22
In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used…
By Cristian Farias 07/01/22
One of Justice Antonin Scalia’s final acts before his death in 2016 was also one of his most breathtaking: joining with four other conservative justices…
By The Editorial Board 07/01/22
On Thursday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, with its 6-3 ruling in the case of West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, curtailed the power of…
By Andy McGlashen 06/30/22
Back in April, the United Nations warned that we had reached a “now or never” moment for world governments to make immediate, steep reductions in…
By Coral Davenport 06/30/22
The Clean Air Act, which some legal experts call the most powerful environmental law in the world, was enacted in 1970, at the birth of…
By Manuela Andreoni 06/30/22
The court was asked to consider whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to issue broad, aggressive regulations on climate-warming pollution from power plants…
By The Hill Staff 06/30/22
The Supreme Court on Thursday curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ability to regulate climate change, setting limits on how the agency can deal with…
By David Wallace-Wells 06/30/22
Many of the headlines about the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday have suggested an existential setback: a…
By Melissa Quinn, Li Cohen 06/30/22
The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, delivering a significant…
By Adam Liptak 06/30/22
The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, making it much tougher for President Biden…
By Jan Wolfe and Timothy Puko 06/30/22
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal regulators exceeded their authority in seeking to limit emissions from coal plants in a decision that sharply curtails…
By Paul Blumenthal and Alexander C. Kaufman 06/30/22
The Supreme Court just made it much harder for the U.S. government to respond to climate change in a 6-3 decision in the case of…
By Oliver Milman 06/30/22
The US supreme court has sided with Republican-led states to in effect hobble the federal government’s ability to tackle the climate crisis, in a ruling…
By Bill McKibben 06/30/22
Credit where due: the Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling in West Virginia v. E.P.A. is the culmination of a five-decade effort to make sure that the…
By Gregory Barber 06/30/22
TODAY, IN A ruling on a nonexistent plan with nonexistent harms to the people who brought the suit, the Supreme Court took an opportunity to…
By Lloyd Alter 06/30/22
To nobody's surprise, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 to make it impossible for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect the environment…
By Lawrence Hurley and Valerie Volcovici 06/30/22
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed limits on the federal government's authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in…
By Coral Davenport 06/30/22
One by one, the tools available to President Biden to fight climate change are being stripped away. After a Supreme Court decision on Thursday, the…
By Emily Barone 06/30/22
On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that will hamstring the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. The…
By Ayurella Horn-Muller 06/30/22
Amid heat records being shattered across the world and historic wildfires raging across the west, climate activists and policymakers working to aggressively curb greenhouse gas…
By Dino Grandoni 06/30/22
The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to cut climate-warming carbon from the nation’s power plants, handing down a decision in…
By Ben Geman and Andrew Freedman 06/30/22
The Supreme Court on Thursday imposed major constraints on the breadth of EPA's authority to limit carbon emissions from power plants. Why it matters: The…
04/22/22 …where are we on this Earth Day outside of 2.6˚warmer than in 1970?
By Bill McKibben 04/22/22
Let’s note that Earth Day was born in 1970 not as a celebration, and not as an occasion for greenwashing press releases, and not as a moment for photo ops—but as a honking big protest.…
By Angely Mercado 04/23/22
It’s been over 50 years since the first Earth Day, and boy, we really solved all those problems, huh? What began as a protest movement…
04/22/22
We need President Biden's $555 billion in climate investments. The House already passed this urgent package—but our senators went on break without taking action!
04/22/22
Geared for the general public, these web pages use stunning visuals, engaging narratives, and hand-curated content to showcase the wide breadth of USGS climate science…
By Washington Post Staff 04/22/22
If hope had a color, it would be the pale green of a newly sprouted seed. It would smell of pollen and damp earth. Its…
By Heather Higinbotham Davies 04/22/22
In early April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released another report detailing the latest scientific understandings and possible mitigation efforts. In his analysis of…
04/22/22
For us, every day is Earth Day. If you feel the same, here are 52 actions and tips to make a difference, every day of…
By John Englande 04/22/22
Since 1970, Earth Day has become a global event to recognize and reflect on all manner of environmental issues. I believe Earth Day is a…
By Washington Post Staff 04/22/22
The Post’s Climate and Environment team’s mission is to empower readers by publishing revelatory stories about our changing planet and the choices being made —…
By Climate Adaptation Science Centers 04/21/22
There are many pieces to the Climate Change puzzle. This Earth Day, learn about the many ways USGS science helps develop solutions to this puzzle!
By Anna Phillips 04/21/22
President Biden will sign an executive order on Friday in Seattle laying the groundwork for protecting some of the biggest and oldest trees in America’s…
04/21/22
As we highlight in a new report, a transition to net-zero emissions would entail an economic transformation that would affect all countries and all sectors…
04/13/22 …the relationship between war and climate change
By Emily Anthes 04/13/22
The Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, on the southern coast of Ukraine, is a haven for migrating birds. More than 120,000 birds spend the winter flitting about its shores, and a multicolored spectrum of rare species…
By Julia Jacobo 04/20/22
As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, environmental experts and activists are warning of a ripple effect of problems, including long-lasting damage to the war-ravaged country's…
By Vanessa Montalbano 04/19/22
Good morning! This is Vanessa Montalbano, the Climate 202 researcher, writing the top of the newsletter today. Below, a pipeline leak in Texas is estimated…
By Ari Shapiro, Ashish Valentine, Karen Zamora, and Amy Isackson 04/15/22
In the days before Russia invaded Ukraine, a leading climate scientist, Svitlana Krakovska, was in Kyiv, racing to finish a landmark U.N. climate report. Then,…
By Thomas Frank 04/12/22
'Terrible things are going to happen' to vulnerable nations, said John Conger, a former Defense Department undersecretary. Three years ago, they formed an advocacy group…
06/14/21
We need to do more to understand the climate costs of war if we’re to identify pathways towards emissions reductions and increased resilience during recovery...
By Stuart Braun 05/28/21
From the dumping of defoliants like Agent Orange on forests in Vietnam to oil wells set ablaze during the Gulf War and the contamination of…
By Neta C. Crawford 11/13/19
If climate change is a “threat multiplier,” as some national security experts and members of the military argue, how does the US military reduce climate…
Murtaza Hussain 09/15/19
OVER A CENTURY before we reached the brink of ecological catastrophe, Rabindranath Tagore had a glimpse of where we might be headed. Tagore, an Indian…
09/12/19
As we observe another anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack, Neta Crawford, political scientist and co-director of the Costs of War project, discusses the…
By Joshua H. Daskin and Robert M. Pringle 01/10/18
Large-mammal populations are ecological linchpins, and their worldwide decline and extinction disrupts many ecosystem functions and services. Reversal of this trend will require an understanding…
By Thomas Fuller 08/09/12
Forty years after the United States stopped spraying herbicides in the jungles of Southeast Asia in the hopes of denying cover to Vietcong fighters and…
By Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark 07/08/10
The carbon footprint of war: 690 million tonnes CO2e: a 'limited' nuclear exchange 250–600 million tonnes CO2e: the Iraq war since 2003. The direct human…
By Stuart Sim 05/25/09
Climate change is acknowledged to be the major problem currently facing the human race, and the need to reduce our carbon footprint becomes ever more…
By Thor Hanson, Thomas M. Brooks and Others 05/15/09
Conservation efforts are only as sustainable as the social and political context within which they take place. The weakening or collapse of sociopolitical frameworks during…
04/04/22 …3rd IPCC report concludes “now or never!”
By Brad Plumer and Raymond Zhong 04/04/22
Nations need to move away much faster from fossil fuels to retain any hope of preventing a perilous future on an overheated planet, according to a major new report on climate change released on Monday,…
03/31/23
The world has no more than a year or two to start bending the curve of carbon emissions downward to avoid more drastic impacts of…
By Matt Mcgrath 04/16/22
In the document, researchers wrote that greenhouse gases are projected to peak "at the latest before 2025". This implies that carbon could increase for another…
By David Roberts 04/13/22
Anyone who’s followed climate change for a while has become accustomed to the cycle of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) —…
By Lloyd Alter 04/12/22
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 3 report was a tough pill to swallow. In the aftermath of its release, I…
By Brady Dennis 04/08/22
According to the IPCC, methane emissions linked to energy supply, particularly “fugitive” emissions that escape from the production and transport of fossil fuels, accounted for…
By Alejandro de la Garza 04/07/22
Decades ago, the state of California tried to strike a major blow against climate change, and failed. The state passed an ambitious rule in 1990…
By Dana Nuccitelli 04/06/22
In the just-released third installment of its Sixth Assessment Report (the first two volumes covered climate change causes and impacts), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
By David Vetter 04/05/22
The world is running out of time to prevent runaway climate collapse, but greenhouse gas emissions can still be halved by 2030 if nations dramatically…
04/05/22
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laid out its latest report Monday stressing the critical need to implement dramatic cuts in greenhouse gasses…
By Evan Bush 04/05/22
From wildfires to sea level rise and heat waves, climate change is having a dramatic impact on the environment and people’s health and well-being. So…
04/05/22
Instead, emissions have continued to rise – albeit at a slowing rate – and it will be “impossible” to stay below 1.5C with “no or…
By Frank Jordans and Seth Borenstein 04/05/22
Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of…
By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis 04/04/22
With the world on track to blaze past its climate goals, only immediate, sweeping societal transformation can stave off catastrophic warming. The world is on…
By Lisa Held 04/04/22
According to the world’s top climate scientists, greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise over the last decade, and that trend must be stopped by 2025…
By Nidhi Subbaraman 04/04/22
Countries must make major, rapid shifts away from fossil fuels and to renewable energy to meet the goals in the 2015 Paris agreement, climate experts…
By Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver 04/04/22
The time for talk has passed and the time to act is now, according to a new United Nations report on how to curb the…
By Sara Kiley Watson 04/04/22
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the third chapter of the Sixth Assessment Report covering climate mitigation. And its findings are grim. United…
By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas 04/04/22
We have the knowledge, money, technology and affordable clean energy that we need to cut our carbon emissions in half by 2030. That’s the good…
By Chelsea Harvey 04/04/22
For decades, the key to halting climate change has been clear: The world must reduce net greenhouse gas emissions down to zero. Now, a comprehensive…
By Rachel Frazin 04/04/22
The United Nations’ climate change panel is calling for a “substantial reduction” in the global use of fossil fuels in order to avoid the worst…
By Lina Tran and Joseph Winters 04/04/22
Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts…
04/04/22
The world must make immediate and drastic cuts to carbon emissions to keep warming to under 1.5 degrees C, according to a new report from…
By Molly Taft 04/04/22
In order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to make a serious U-turn over the next three years to curb…
By Dharna Noor 04/04/22
The world is on track to usher in a devastating level of global warming, warns a major report from the world’s leading climate scientists. “It…
By Matt Simon 04/04/22
Another damning IPCC report insists that to reduce emissions, humanity will need more political willpower and help from nature's carbon-sequestering powers.
By Alan Jenn 04/04/22
Around the world, revolutionary changes are under way in transportation. More electric vehicles are on the road, people are taking advantage of sharing mobility services…
By Nicholas Reimann 04/04/22
The United Nations called on governments Monday to drastically reduce fossil fuel emissions and ramp up investment in renewable energy in what it framed as…
By Ciara Nugent 04/04/22
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the worst of climate change would be relatively cheap and technologically feasible, but governments and financial bodies are failing…
By Raymond Zhong 04/04/22
Nations are not doing nearly enough to prevent global warming from increasing to dangerous levels within the lifetimes of most people on Earth today, according…
By Kieran Mulvaney 04/04/22
To limit warming to manageable levels, the world has only a few years to stop using fossil fuels completely.
By Andrew Freedman 03/18/22
During a media briefing before the start of a two-week plenary meeting, during which scientists and government representatives will review each word used in the…
By Kate Zerrenner 03/04/22
Climate and water are inextricably linked. Yet conversations and reporting about the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report: Impacts, Adaptation and…
By Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain 08/09/21
Nations have delayed curbing their fossil-fuel emissions for so long that they can no longer stop global warming from intensifying over the next 30 years,…
By Alex Kotch 03/21/22
In its recently released report on climate impacts and adaptation, a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change points out the very real danger of climate misinformation—for the first time since its annual…
By Amy Westervelt 05/25/22
Back in late 2021, as Russian President Vladimir Putin began mobilizing troops at the Ukraine border, the fossil fuel industry got its foot soldiers ready…
By Gary E. Frank 04/28/22
When it comes to curbing the spread of disinformation about climate change, social media platforms are more opaque than transparent about their policies to combat…
04/25/22
For decades, the fossil fuel industry has poured millions of dollars into spreading climate disinformation 1 online and offline to drive public polarization and stall…
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 EDGI Comms 04/20/22
Today, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) releases its report, Owning Up: A Tool to Measure US Carbon Emissions by Corporations. The report analyzes…
By Jeff Turrentine 04/19/22
To hear some climate scientists and activists tell it, there are actually encouraging signs that climate skepticism is on the decline. The evidence for climate…
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…
04/15/22
Fossil fuel companies have spent decades casting doubt in public about climate facts that their own scientists validated in internal company research. These tactics have…
By Kate Yoder 04/15/22
In 1989, just as leaders around the world were starting to think seriously about tackling global warming, the National Association of Manufacturers assembled a group…
04/14/22
The campaign finance system is broken. Super PACs and shadowy nonprofits give enormous sway to the super-wealthy and big corporations. The Brennan Center is working…
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 Merlyn Thomas 03/30/22
A report released Wednesday by Global Witness found Facebook's algorithm amplified doubts rather than nudging people towards reliable information. Facebook says its systems are "designed…
By Taylor Lorenz and Drew Harwell 03/30/22
Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the…
By Julia Simon 03/28/22
On a winter night in early 2016, Jeremy Kitson gathered in his buddy's large shed with some neighbors to plan their fight against a proposed…
By Chris McGreal 03/25/22
For nine years, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat representing Rhode Island since 2007, made weekly speeches called “Time To Wake Up” urging the Senate to…
By Emily Pontecorvo 03/25/22
A flurry of climate pledges from financial institutions in recent years has not been followed by meaningful action, according to a report from the corporate…
03/24/22
Alex Kotch at the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) published the latest count of climate disinfo funding, tallying up over $50 million in “donations”…
By Shoma Bhattacharjee 03/09/22
BlackRock had recently become one of the latest financial institutions to call for sustainable investment. The company, the world’s biggest multinational investment management company with…
By Chris McGreal 10/26/21
A majority of Americans want to see oil and gas companies held to account for lying about the climate crisis and contributing to global heating,…
By Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Others 08/17/21
After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building in January, hundreds of corporations pledged to make changes to their political giving. Some corporations pledged to…
02/27/22 …the key findings of the IPCC report released February 28
By Hans-O. Pörtner, Debra C. Roberts and Others 02/27/22
This report recognizes the interdependence of climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, and human societies and integrates knowledge more strongly across the natural, ecological, social and economic sciences than earlier IPCC assessments. The assessment of climate change…
By David Roberts 04/13/22
Anyone who’s followed climate change for a while has become accustomed to the cycle of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) —…
By Earth 911 03/14/22
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its 2022 update on the state of the planet, and the news is not…
03/08/22
I hope this finds you all safe in these increasingly troubled times. Normally the Juice Media Podcast acts as a companion to out latest Honest…
By the Times Editorial Board 03/07/22
A landmark U.N. climate report on the escalating effects of global warming broke new ground by finally highlighting the role of misinformation in obstructing climate…
By Ian James 03/04/22
In the latest United Nations report on climate change, scientists document the stark toll inflicted by global warming through more intense heat waves, droughts, floods…
By Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) 02/28/22
U.N. report finds nations not acting fast enough to protect populations from current and future climate threats, as the Supreme Court takes up case that…
By Aaron Steckelberg and others 02/28/22
Our world is undergoing a radical transformation. This is the unmistakable message of the latest report on Monday from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on…
By Louise Boyle and Harry Cockburn 02/28/22
The world’s leading authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has published the second chapter of its most sweeping assessment…
By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas 02/28/22
Rising temperatures around the globe are increasingly killing humans and trees, have forced half of all species on the planet to relocate, caused more water-borne…
By Evan Bush 02/28/22
As temperatures warm, the health risks of climate change are expected to intensify in the U.S. and worldwide. The effects of climate change have already…
By Rachel Frazin 02/28/22
A new report from a United Nations climate panel is warning of the deadly effects of climate change both now and in the future —…
By Dinah Voyles Pulver and Doyle Rice 02/28/22
Life in some locations on the planet is rapidly reaching the point where it will be too hot for the species that live there to…
By Brad Plumer and Raymond Zhong 02/28/22
The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt unless greenhouse…
By Dharna Noor 02/28/22
Climate change is changing our world more quickly than anticipated, and its effects are even more widespread and horrific than previously thought, according to an…
By Rebecca Hersher 02/28/22
Billions of people on every continent are suffering because of climate change, according to a major new United Nations report released on Monday. And governments…
By Seth Borenstein 02/28/22
Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer,…
By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis 02/28/22
In the hotter and more hellish world humans are creating, parts of the planet could become unbearable in the not-so-distant future, a panel of the…
By Fiona Harvey 02/28/22
Climate breakdown is accelerating rapidly, many of the impacts will be more severe than predicted and there is only a narrow chance left of avoiding…
By Bob Berwyn 02/28/22
Today’s report on climate impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was finalized just as Russia invaded Ukraine. Russian scientists at…
By Fiona Harvey 02/28/22
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, charged with publishing regular comprehensive updates of global knowledge on…
By Kieran Mulvany 02/28/22
Climate change is causing greater impacts than expected at lower temperatures than anticipated, disrupting natural systems and affecting the lives of billions of people around…
02/28/22
The IPCC’s report on the impacts of climate change paints a dire picture. We have now reached 1.1° C of warming, and we’re already seeing…
02/28/22
The IPCC provides regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation...
09/14/20 ...Climate Change and Food; Farming and Eating Sustainably
Graphic by Mary Tiegreen, CCR By Daisy Dunne 09/14/20
Food production accounts for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and takes up half of the planet’s habitable surface. A taste for meat has had a particular impact on land. The mass of animals…
Graphic by Mary Tiegreen, CCR 
Image By CCR + AI By Bill McKibben 01/05/22
The runaway success of Don’t Look Up—after 11 days it’s already the third-most viewed film in Netflix history—should have several salutary results, including perhaps a new willingness in Hollywood to make comedies that don’t turn…
12/22/21 …climate change in 2021
12/13/21
Politicians have argued. The summits have come and gone. But the truth is that climate change is already upon us. This is Times Opinion’s tour of how climate change has begun reshaping reality in the…
By Jeff Masters 01/30/23
The year was the second-costliest on record for drought. It also had three mega-disasters costing at least $20 billion, plus a heat wave that killed…
By Isabel Friedman and Rich Schrader 01/17/23
NRDC has been hard at work with our partners in New York State. New York has, for years, taken strong positions on climate, and the…
By John Muyskens, Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin 01/31/22
President Biden seized on climate change as a core priority when he took office, saying days after his inauguration, “We’ve already waited too long to…
01/18/22
In our January Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we forecast that rising electricity generation from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will reduce generation…
By Zeke Hausfather 01/17/22
The climate data for 2021 is now mostly in, and it has proved to be another noteworthy year across the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere and surface…
01/13/22
After two consecutive years (2019 and 2020) that ranked among the top three warmest on record, Earth was a slightly cooler planet in 2021. But…
By Kasha Patel 01/11/22
A new analysis, published Tuesday in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, showed that oceans contained the most heat energy in 2021 since measurements began…
By Ben German and Andrew Freedman 01/11/22
In 2021, the contiguous U.S. saw its second-highest number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
By Sarah Kaplan and Andrew Ba Tran 01/05/22
As climate-fueled extreme weather intensified last year, more than 80 percent of Americans experienced a heat wave. The impacts of fires and severe storms also…
By Julian Spector 01/05/22
I love the holidays because they offer a chance to mingle with old friends and family members who don’t think about the clean energy transition…
By Brian Kahn 01/04/22
The weather wasn't just wild, it was also incredibly hot across large parts of the Lower 48, leading to what is likely a new national…
By Larry Pearl 01/04/22
The election of a Democratic president intent on addressing climate change through federal policy drove some of the biggest utility stories of the past year.
By Jonathan Overpeck 01/04/22
When pondering resolutions for a new year, it can be helpful to review the year gone by. In the case of 2021, one of the…
By Ciara Nugent 01/03/22
It’s been an awfully long year for everyone—and that includes climate reporters. The world’s biggest story kept getting bigger in 2021, finding its way into…
By Bill Mckibben 12/30/21
Which is to say, we’re seeing truly unimaginable weather events, clear evidence that “stopping global warming” is no longer on the menu, and that holding…
By The Civil Eats Editors 12/30/21
From the climate crisis to systemic racism to the never-ending pandemic, challenges abound, and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But across the food system, people…
By Pippa Stevens 12/30/21
Clean energy stocks came under pressure during 2021 as policy uncertainty, supply chain issues and concerns over stretched valuations weighed on the sector. But some…
By Sabrina Shankman 12/28/21
Sometimes climate change is measured in numbers — degrees warmed, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, extreme highs, acres burned. Sometimes it’s measured in memories —…
By Alejandro De La Garza 12/28/21
After a rare pandemic-related dip in 2020, global carbon emissions bounced back with a vengeance. Climate disasters seemed relentless over the summer, from flooding in…
By Jeff St. John 12/28/21
States have long led U.S. clean energy policy by setting renewable energy targets and requiring carbon emission cuts from their broader economies. The Biden administration…
By Jeff St. John 12/28/21
States have long led U.S. clean energy policy by setting renewable energy targets and requiring carbon emission cuts from their broader economies. The Biden administration…
By The Civil Eats Editors 12/28/21
As 2021 comes to an end, we take stock of another momentous year that marked massive upheavals in the food system and across society. To…
By Catherine Brahic 12/27/21
This year has delivered a rollicking ride for climate news. It kicked off with President Joe Biden bringing the United States back into the Paris…
By Jacob Feuerstein 12/27/21
From record-shattering heat to frigid waves of cold, torrential downpours to relentless drought, 2021 has been a year of extremes in the United States.
By James Temple 12/23/21
The deadly consequences of climate change only grew clearer this year, as record-shattering heat waves, floods, and wildfires killed thousands and strained the limits of…
12/22/21
This year, extreme weather and other disasters made it clearer than ever that the climate crisis will only worsen unless we act. If we’re lucky,…
By Dan Charles & Jeff Brady 12/22/21
After four years of near-silence about climate change in the White House, 2021 brought an abrupt shift. President Biden turned it into one of the…
The New York Times 12/22/21
A lot happened this year. Jog your memory with stories compiled by The New York Times climate desk.
By Rachel Ramirez, Brandon Miller and Bill Weir 12/22/21
The climate crisis took a catastrophic toll across the globe in 2021. From the Arctic to Louisiana and to China's Henan province, signs that climate…
By Karen K. Ho 12/22/21
Sustainability became a major corporate topic in 2021. Extreme weather and natural disasters were a devastating issue: Texas experienced freezing temperatures and winter storms; Hurricane…
By Chris Dolce 12/21/21
Here's a look back at 10 of the record-breaking moments that left meteorologists stunned from the start to the end of the year.
By Shuang _Ye Wu 12/21/21
Alongside a lingering global pandemic, the year 2021 was filled with climate disasters, some so intense they surprised even the scientists who study them.
By Eric Wesoff 12/20/21
The U.S. solar market has managed to notch a decade of steady growth despite shifting global economics and oscillating domestic energy policy. Expansion has continued…
By Peter Sinclair 12/20/21
“Volatile and unpredictable.” Those are the terms used in this new Yale Climate Connections video produced by independent videographer Peter Sinclair.
By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis 12/17/21
Scores of studies presented this week at the world’s largest climate science conference offered an unequivocal and unsettling message: Climate change is fundamentally altering what…
05/25/21 …nuclear energy and its role in reaching our climate goals
By Ugo Bardi 05/25/21
I remember having read Walt Disney’s book, “Our Friend, the Atom,” (1957) in the 1960s when I was, maybe, 10 years old. That book left a powerful impression on me. Still today, when I visualize…
By Alison Snyder 12/16/22
The path to powering the world with nuclear fusion energy involves solving key materials science and technology problems. The big picture: This week's announcement of…
By Sammy Roth 05/18/21
The twin reactors along California’s Central Coast were nearing completion, and tens of thousands of people had gathered to protest. It was 1979, just months…
By Josh Freed 05/15/21
We’ve reached a critical juncture in America’s nuclear energy future. Put differently, we’re in make-or-break territory for reaching net-zero by 2050. That’s because nuclear still…
By Josh Siegel 05/06/21
The Biden administration is “eager” to work with Congress on subsidizing economically struggling nuclear plants to keep them from retiring, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said…
By Dan Gearino 05/06/21
At 11 p.m. on April 30, employees shut down the nuclear reactor at Indian Point Energy Center Unit 3, marking the end of a power…
By Timothy Gardner & Jarrett Renshaw 05/05/21
The White House has signaled privately to lawmakers and stakeholders in recent weeks that it supports taxpayer subsidies to keep nuclear facilities from closing and…
By Andrew Cain 05/04/21
The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has backed Dominion Energy’s application to extend operations at its Surry Power Station by 20 years, into the…
By Lois Parshley 05/04/21
President Joe Biden has set ambitious goals for fighting climate change: To cut U.S. carbon emissions in half by 2030 and to have a net-zero…
By Slade Johnson 04/30/21
The Indian Point Energy Center (Indian Point) permanently stopped generating electricity on April 30, 2021, when it retired its last operating nuclear reactor, Unit 3,…
By World Nuclear News 04/12/21
Policymakers who ignore nuclear energy are not serious about meeting climate goals, delegates said at an Atlantic Council webinar last week. The first in the…
By Jackie Toth & Jackie Kempfer 04/08/21
Advanced nuclear could play a critical role in getting the domestic and global electricity sector to net-zero emissions by 2050, decarbonizing industrial processes, and producing…
By Maria Korsnick 03/23/21
NEI President and Chief Executive Officer Maria Korsnick delivered the following remarks on the critical role nuclear energy will play in meeting the Biden administration’s…
By Office of Nucelar Energy 01/01/21
Despite all the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. nuclear energy industry pulled out some big wins in 2020, and this year could be…
