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 Photo by Reuters
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 Illustrations by Ceci Freed / Media Matters
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
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 Photo by Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images
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
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
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 Kristin Musulin
The end of 2019 is quickly approaching, leaving a whirlwind of city-shaping news and developments in its wake.
By BOB BERWYN
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
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 Photo by Bryan Anselm/Redux
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
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
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
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 Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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 Photo by Newsha Tavakolian, Nat Geo Image Collection
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 Photo: Tom Toro
Climate scientists list most encouraging, most discouraging, developments of 2019. (Part II, to come, on outlook for 2020)
By Al Gore
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…
12/15/19
… the resounding and disappointing outcome of COP25
By Somini Sengupta
Photo by Bernat Armangue/Associated Press
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 Photo by Kiara Worth - IISD/ENB
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
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 Photo by Bernat Armangue/AP
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 Photo by Kiara Worth - IISD/ENB
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 Photo by IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth
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 Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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
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 Photo by TED
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…
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
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 Photo: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times
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 Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle
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 Photo: Meridith Kohut for The New York Times Magazine
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 Photo: David McNew/Getty Images
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.…
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 Photo: Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times
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
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 Photo: Adam Hunger
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
At least five people are missing in the East Troublesome Fire, which burned 140,000 acres in 24 hours
By Virginia Gewin
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…
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 Photo: Frederic J Brown, AFP, Getty Images
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 Photo: David McNew/Getty Images
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
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 Photo by Noah Berger/AP
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
A new blaze known as the Hillside fire forced residents to flee as strong winds drove the flames.
By DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA
PG&E turned off the grid. All on Marin County and beyond is in the fifth day of no electricity.
By Chronicle Digital Team Maps by Tod Trumbull
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 Photo by Shasta-Trinity National Forest
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 Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty
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 Photo: Jp Moczulski / Reuters
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
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 Photo: David ‘Dee’ Delgado/Bloomberg
A dozen “public nuisance” lawsuits accuse fossil fuel giants of hiding, and denying, their knowledge of global warming.
By Dan Zegart
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 Photo: Frank Franklin II/AP
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 Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty
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 Photo: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty
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 Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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 Photo: Erik Larson
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 Photo by Jim Young/Reuters
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 Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images
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 Video by LA Times
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 Photo by AP
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 Photo: PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay
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
Video by Luis Velarde/The Washington Post
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
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
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 Photo by Eva Hambach/AFP
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
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
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 Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP
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
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 Photo: Melissa Lyttle
At 81, the Hollywood icon is entering yet another stage in her life.
By Marcus Jones Photo: Pixabay
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
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 Photo: John Lamparski
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
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
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 Photo: AP
Jane Fonda may have just given the greatest acceptance speech of all time.
By Alex Stedman Photo: Associated Press
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 Photo: Shutterstock
“People say that the Green New Deal is radical,” Waterston said at the rally. “What is radical is climate disruption.”
By Neil Vigdor Photo by Ting Shen/NYT
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 Photo: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times
[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
The Washington Post contacted someone who did study economics in college and asked him to explain it to us.
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 By Manuel Lopez/World Economic Forum
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
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
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
The world has gotten hotter, lost trillions of tons of ice and suffered more weather disasters since climate negotiations started
By Josephine Harvey
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 Photo: Chris Keane/Reuters
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 Photo: Leonardo DiCaprio
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 Photo by Canadian Press/Rex/Shutterstock
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
OWA CITY, Iowa – The adults are still failing kids, Greta Thunberg told thousands of Iowans Friday.
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…
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…
By Somini Sengupta Photo by Anna Moneymaker/The New York Tim
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…
If you’re a grumpy old codger with an uncontrollable urge to yell at a teenage girl on TV, there’s help.
Photo by Anders Hellberg
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…
Photo by Anders Hellberg
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 Photo by Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images
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…
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
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 Alexandra Schwartz Photo by Jonno Rattman for The New Yorker
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…
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…
By Nick Visser
“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.”
09/21/19
…The United National Climate Action Summit with hundreds of events taking place through NYC.
By Somini Sengupta
Photo by Bruno Kelly/Reuters
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
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…
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…
By Ed King Photo by Mario Guti
"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…
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
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…
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
“You are failing us," 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg tells world leaders. “The eyes of all future generations are upon you.”
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 Matt McGrath Photo by Getty Images
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 Photo by AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
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 Photo by AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
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.
By David Wallace-Wells Photo: Intelligencer/Getty Images
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,…
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
Photo by Axel Heimken/DPA, via Agence France-Presse
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…
By Sean Munger
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 Photo by Sunrise Movement
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…
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 Somini Sengupta, Susan Shain and Christopher Flavelle By Lucas Jackson/Reuters, Saul Loeb/AFP
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
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 By Sumy Sadurni for NYT
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 Photo by Peter Foley/EPA-EFE/REX
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 Photo by James Carbone
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 Photo by Alyson Silkowski
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 By Jeenah Moon/Reuters
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 Photo: Chip Somodevilla , Getty Images
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 Photo: Justin Sullivan , Getty Images
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 Photo by Cayambe/Wikimedia Commons
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 Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Across the world, journalists are stationed from Antarctica to the Amazon covering how climate change is impacting people’s lives.
By Nancy Matsumoto
The public and private sectors are rapidly picking up efforts to ramp up carbon farming.
By Emily Holden Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters
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 Illustration by Doug Chayka
“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
Illustration by Leonardo Santamaria
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 Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images
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 Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
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 Photo by Shelby Graham
Inexplicably, Jonathan Franzen and the New Yorker have come back for another round of being complete dumbasses about climate change.
By Alison Flood Photo by Morgan Rachel Levy/The Guardian
‘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 Photo from the Paris Review
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 Photo: Sam Hall/Bloomberg News
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
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 Photo: David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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
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 Photo: Shutterstock
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 Photo: Sefa Karacan , Getty
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 Photo: Emily Buchanan
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 Photo by Win Mcnamee/Getty Images
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 Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP
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 Photo by Wes Frazer
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…
