×
PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT

PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT

PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT…

09/02/22

…HEAT and all its ramifications

ARTICLE
The Washington Post

Punishing heat wave in West sets records, fuels fires

By Matthew Cappucci, Diana Leonard and Others Photo: Hung T. Vu/AP 09/02/22
Nearly 50 million Americans are under alerts through Labor Day weekend because of a prolonged heat wave that has already set dozens of records throughout…
Sep 13 2022
The Washington Post

Maps show where extreme heat shattered 7,000 records this summer

By Jason Samenow Photo: John Locher/AP
It was the summer that wouldn’t quit. From early June to straight past Labor Day, waves upon waves of heat scorched and baked the country,…
Sep 11 2022
Wsj

U.S. Heat Wave Hits Supermarkets’ Produce Sections

By Jaewon Kang and Others Photo: Kyle Grillot, Bloomberg News
High temperatures in the Western U.S. are hitting the produce industry, damaging crops, shrinking shipments and leaving fewer leafy greens and fruits on supermarket shelves.…
Sep 09 2022
The Los Angeles Times

California set to be first state with extreme heat warning system under bills signed by Newsom

By Hannah Fry and Others Photo: Al Seib, The Times
As much of the West continued to swelter in a record-breaking heat wave, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a package of legislation aimed at…
Sep 09 2022
Inside Climate News

Extreme Heat Poses an Emerging Threat to Food Crops

By Liza Gross Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst, Getty Images
As the American West grapples with another dangerous heat wave in the midst of a megadrought, official advisories rightly focus on short-term measures to keep…
Sep 08 2022
The Washington Post

No September on record in the West has seen a heat wave like this

By Jason Samenow Photo: Ashley Landis/AP
The heat wave that’s been gripping California and other parts of the West for 10 days and counting is the most severe ever recorded in…
Sep 07 2022
The New York Times

Weather Updates: California avoids rolling blackouts

Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Cities across California set record high temperatures on Tuesday, including Sacramento at 116 degrees. The heat wave will continue across the West on Wednesday, but…
Sep 01 2022
USA Today

California hopes to avoid blackouts amid heatwave by asking millions of people to use less electricity

By Celina Tebor Photo: Fernando Vergara, AP
A multi-state heatwave will test California's electric grid over Labor Day weekend as triple-digit temperatures hit millions of people simultaneously, prompting concern that the state…
Aug 31 2022
The Los Angeles Times

California heat waves are getting worse. Blame the vicious ‘heat dome’

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…
Aug 31 2022
The Washington Post

Record-threatening, long-duration heat wave to roast Western U.S

By Matthew Cappucci Photo: Pivotal Weather
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento are all included in excessive heat watches or warnings over the Labor Day weekend.
Aug 31 2022
Axios

Record heat hits Southwest: More high temps forecast for Labor Day weekend

By Sareen Habeshian and Others
A prolonged and intense heat wave has begun to swelter much of the Southwest this week — and by early next week, dozens of records…
Aug 31 2022
The Los Angeles Times

Extreme heat wave pushing California power grid to limit, with rolling blackouts possible

By Gregory Yee and Others Photo: Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times
The worst heat wave of the year is presenting a critical test for California’s overtaxed power grid, with officials warning rolling blackouts are possible without…
Aug 15 2022
Axios

An “Extreme Heat Belt” will soon emerge in the U.S., study warns

By Andrew Freedman Photo: Axios Visuals
A new study reveals the emergence of an "extreme heat belt" from Texas to Illinois, where the heat index could reach 125°F at least one…
Aug 15 2022
The Washington Post

More dangerous heat waves are on the way: See the impact by Zip code.

By John Muyskens and Others
It was the middle of July and already this summer had become a top contender for the hottest in Texas’s recorded history. In San Antonio,…
Aug 12 2022
noaa

Assessing the Global Climate in July 2022

Globally, July 2022 was the sixth-warmest July in the 143-year NOAA record. The year-to-date (January-July) global surface temperature was also the sixth-warmest on record. According…
Aug 11 2022
The Washington Post

We built a fake metropolis to show how extreme heat could wreck cities

By Bonnie Berkowitz and Others
Most of the mechanical, electrical and architectural systems we count on every day were built to handle what the climate has always been, not what…
Aug 10 2022
The Hill

Hotter nights could lead to a 60 percent rise in global mortality: study

By Gianna Melillo
As the United States continues to trudge through a sweltering summer and with a warm fall on the way, new research underscores the potentially deadly…
Aug 09 2022
The Washington Post

As temperatures rise, industries fight heat safeguards for workers

By Anna Phillips Photo: Cindy Karp, The Washington Post
In the nearly two decades she has worked in South Florida’s plant nurseries, baking under greenhouse plastic covers, Sandra Ascencio has seen more than her…
Aug 04 2022
Bloomberg

Mapping the coolest spots inside the world’s sweltering cities

By Laura Millan, Hayley Warren and Jeremy Scott Diamond
The cement, glass and steel that give shape to urban life have also turned modern cities into dangerous heat sinks. Scorching sunlight gets absorbed, stored…
Aug 03 2022
Gizmodo

This Heat Map of the U.S. Is… Yikes

By Angely Mercado Photo: NASA
We knew July was sweltering, but this air temperature map based on NASA satellite data really puts it in perspective. The darkest areas represent temperatures…
Aug 01 2022
The Washington Post

Major heat wave to swell over Lower 48 after records fall in Northwest

By Matthew Cappucci and Others Photo: Weather Bell
Large parts of the Lower 48 are set to bake this week after a punishing, prolonged heat wave that set records in the Pacific Northwest…
Jul 30 2022
The Guardian

‘Soon the world will be unrecognisable’: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown?

By Robin Mckie Photo: Ian Logan, Getty Images
The publication of Bill McGuire’s latest book, Hothouse Earth, could not be more timely. Appearing in the shops this week, it will be perused by…
Jul 28 2022
Bloomberg

Jet Stream Stokes Both Deadly Midwest Flooding and Northwest Heat

By Brian K Sullivan Photo: David Ryder, Getty Images
Deadly floods are slamming the US Heartland. More than 2,000 miles away, dangerous heat is scorching the Pacific Northwest. The same phenomenon is to blame…
Jul 26 2022
The New York Times

Federal government fires up website all about heat

By Lisa Friedman Photo: Nathan Howard/Associated Press
The Biden administration unveiled a website on Tuesday to help Americans stay safe from extreme heat, as scorching temperatures continued to grip portions of the…
Jul 25 2022
Axios

Hundreds of temperature records broken as heat wave scorches the U.S.

By Julia Shapero Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld, Getty Images
Hundreds of temperature records fell over the past week as an intense heat wave continues to blast the U.S. The big picture: The deadly heat…
Jul 25 2022
Ted Talks

A 3-part plan to take on extreme heat waves

By Elini Myrivili
The deadliest severe weather phenomenon is something you might not realize: extreme heat. Eleni Myrivili, chief heat officer of the city of Athens, Greece, explains…
Jul 22 2022
The Washington Post

Brutal heat from Phoenix to Boston triggers alerts for 100 million

By Matthew Cappucci and Jason Samenow Photo: Pivotal Weather
More than 100 million people in the Lower 48 states are under heat alerts on Thursday amid relentlessly sweltering temperatures that have soared as high…
Jul 21 2022
The Washington Post

As concert tours heat the planet, artists try to cut carbon emissions

By Ta'Leah Van Sistine Photo: Jonathan Newton , The Washington Post
Thousands of fans, many holding stainless-steel pint cups, sticker-covered water bottles and aluminum cans, cheered as Jack Johnson took the stage Friday night. Before he…
Jul 20 2022
The New York Times

Tracking Dangerous Heat in the U.S.

By Matthew Bloch, Lazaro Gamio and Others
Dangerous levels of heat are forecast in the South, West and Midwest on Monday, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
Jul 19 2022
The Washington Post

Blistering heat bakes the Plains with highs up to 115 degrees

By Matthew Cappucci Photo: Pivotal Weather
As historic temperatures bake Europe, with readings as high as 115 degrees in Portugal, it’s been just as scorchingly hot stateside. Sixty million Americans could…
Jul 19 2022
The Washington Post

Heat waves are getting hotter and more frequent. Here’s how to prepare.

By Allyson Chiu Photo: Jose Sarmento Matos
Amid a historically hot summer, swaths of the United States and Europe are baking. Already scorching temperatures are continuing to climb in some areas, prompting…
Jul 19 2022
Media Matters

National TV networks mention climate change in 32% of segments on global extreme heat

By Ted Macdonald
Punishing extreme heat is affecting countries all across the globe this week. Extreme “red” heat warnings were issued in the United Kingdom for the first…
Jul 18 2022
C2ES

Heat Waves and Climate Change

Photo: Russel Vose
Across the globe, hot days are getting hotter and more frequent, while we’re experiencing fewer cold days. Over the past decade, daily record high temperatures…
Jul 18 2022
CNN

Hot records are outpacing cool by more than 10-to-1 this year as Europe, US brace for dangerous heat

By Rachel Ramirez & Others
In the US, 92 all-time record high temperatures had been set through July 16, compared with only five all-time record low temperatures, according to data…
Jul 18 2022
The Washington Post

These maps show how excessively hot it is in Europe and the U.S.

By Matthew Cappucci Photo: WeatherBell
A historic and deadly heat wave has been scorching western Europe, killing hundreds in Spain and Portugal. Temperatures spiked to 115 degrees on the Iberian…
Jul 18 2022
ABC News

Excessive heat scorches parts of US due to climate change

By Ginger Zee
Ginger Zee explains how above-average temperatures are directly linked to climate change.
More related articles
08/16/22

…The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

ARTICLE
The New York Times

Biden signs expansive health, climate and tax law

By Jim Tankersley Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times 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,…
Aug 22 2022
EELP

Environmental Justice (EJ) Provisions of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act

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…
Aug 19 2022
The New York Times

What the U.S. climate law means for the world

By Somini Sengupta Photo: Loren Elliott, Reuters
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…
Aug 18 2022
The Washington Post

Why the climate bill’s impact might not match what many expect

By Shannon Osaka Photo: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post
The Inflation Reduction Act — the health care and climate bill that was signed into law by President Biden on Tuesday — marks the largest…
Aug 18 2022
Bloomberg Law

Biden’s Signing of Climate Law Kicks Off Marathon of Rulemaking (2)

By Jennifer A Dlouhy Photo: Sarah Silbiger, Bloomberg
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…
Aug 18 2022
The New York Times

Why Buying an Electric Car Just Became More Complicated

By Jim Tankersley Photo: Philip Cheung, The New York Times
Those calculations — and a host of others pertaining to the red-hot electric vehicle market — come courtesy of an energy, tax and health care…
Aug 18 2022
AP News

Federal study: New climate law to slice carbon pollution 40%

By Seth Borenstein Photo: Eugene Garcia, AP Photo
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…
Aug 17 2022
Bloomberg

Bill Gates and the secret push to save Biden’s climate bill

By Akshat Rathi Photo: Getty Images
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…
Aug 17 2022
Foreign Policy

Biden’s Historic Climate Bill Needs Smart Foreign Policy

By Jason Bordoff Photo: Olivier Douliery, Getty Images
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…
Aug 17 2022
Volts

Diving further into the Inflation Reduction Act: Part One

By David Roberts
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…
Aug 16 2022
The Washington Post

Al Gore on the Inflation Reduction Act: ‘It took so long’

By Maxine Joselow Photo: Alastair Grant/AP
In 1981, as a young lawmaker, former vice president Al Gore held what some experts think was the first congressional hearing on climate change.
Aug 16 2022
electrek

Here are the cars eligible for the $7,500 EV tax credit in the Inflation Reduction Act Jameson Dow

By Jameson Dow
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…
Aug 16 2022
Politico

GOP govs who hate Biden’s climate bill stand to benefit big from it

By Catherine Morehouse Photo: Tony Gutierrez/AP
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…
Aug 16 2022
nerdwallet

What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for Green Energy and EV Stocks

By Sam Taube
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…
Aug 16 2022
Canary Media

Climate law may revolutionize US cleantech manufacturing

By Jeff St. John Photo: Dustin Chambers/Getty Images
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…
Aug 16 2022
Earth Justice

What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for Climate

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…
Aug 16 2022
The White House

FACT SHEET: How the Inflation Reduction Act Helps Latino Communities

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.…
Aug 16 2022
US Department of Energy

Alternative Fuels Data Center

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-169) amends the Qualified Plug-in Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Credit (IRC 30D), now known as the Clean…
Aug 15 2022
Utilitydive

Utility leaders hail clean energy tax incentives as House sends historic climate bill to Biden’s desk

By Ethan Howland Photo: drnadig, Getty Images
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…
Aug 14 2022
Forbes

Energy provisions in the inflation reduction act

By Robert Rapier Photo: AFP/Getty Images
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…
Aug 13 2022
The New York Times

A detailed picture of what’s in the Democrats’ climate and health bill

By Francesca Paris, Alicia Parlapiano and Others
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…
Aug 13 2022
AP News

Congress OKs Dems’ climate, health bill, a Biden triumph

By Alan Fram Photo: Susan Walsh, AP Photo
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…
Aug 13 2022
The Washington Post

West Virginia coal country will test power of Democrats’ climate bill

By Jeff Stein Photo: Roger May
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…
Aug 13 2022
The Atlantic

Not Even a Single Republican Voted for the Climate Bill

By Robinson Meyer
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…
Aug 13 2022
Huffpost

States Will Decide How Much Democrats’ Historic Climate Deal Actually Cuts Emissions

By Alexander C. Kaufman Photo: Robert Nickelsberg, Getty Images
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…
Aug 12 2022
The Washington Post

House passes Inflation Reduction Act, sending climate bill to Biden

By Tony Romm Photo: Sarah Silbiger/The Washington Post
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…
Aug 12 2022
Los Angeles Times

Risk of catastrophic California ‘megaflood’ has doubled

By Louis Sahagun Photo: National Park Service
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…
Aug 12 2022
The New York Times

House passes sweeping climate, tax and health care package

By Emily Cochrane By Kenny Holston/The New York Times
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.
Aug 12 2022
PBS News

WATCH: Democrats pass landmark climate and health bill

By Alan Fram
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…
Aug 12 2022
The Boston Globe

Congress approves Democrats’ climate and health bill

By Alan Fram Photo: Patrick Semansky/Associated Press
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…
Aug 12 2022
Canary Media

Energy storage wins a long-sought victory with Inflation Reduction Act

By Julian Spector
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…
Aug 12 2022
Canary Media

The Inflation Reduction Act could revive solar manufacturing in the US

By Eric Wesoff Photo: Dustin Chambers, Getty Images
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…
Aug 12 2022
The City

New York’s Climate and Energy Goals Would Get Jolt With Federal Bill’s Green

By Samantha Maldonado Photo: Ben Fractenberg, The City
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…
Aug 12 2022
nbc news

House passes sweeping climate and health care bill, sending it to Biden’s desk

By Sahil Kapur
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…
Aug 12 2022
CNN

House passes Democrats’ health care and climate bill, clearing measure for Biden’s signature

By Clare Foran and Others
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…
Aug 12 2022
Canary Media

The new climate law will help clean up air travel

By Maria Gallucci
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…
More related articles
08/12/22

…Hurricanes and Flooding

ARTICLE
The New York Times

The coming California megaflood

By Raymond Zhong Photo: Erin Schaff 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…
Aug 26 2022
AccuWeather

Dallas flooding is 5th 1-in-1,000-year flood event in US since late July

By Wyatt Loy Photo: AP Photo/LM Otero
From the Desert Southwest to the southern Plains and Midwest, epic deluges have been an unfortunately common occurrence over the past month.
Sep 10 2021
The New York Times

New Orleans is coming back from Ida, but rural Louisiana is still struggling.

By Sophie Kasakove Photo: John Locher/Associated Press
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…
Sep 09 2021
The New York Times

Nearly all power has been restored in New Orleans, where at least 10 people died of excess heat after Ida.

By Giulia Heyward and Sophie Kasakove Photo: Chris Granger
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…
Sep 07 2021
TIME

Can Hurricane Ida Move Public Opinion on Climate Change?

By Justin Worland
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…
Sep 05 2021
The New York Times

Hurricane Larry Strengthens to a Category 3 Storm

Photo: NOAA
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…
Sep 03 2021
Yale Climate Connections

Death toll from Ida climbs above 60 from Louisiana to New England

By Bob Henson and Jeff Masters Photo: Michael Stokes
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…
Sep 03 2021
AP

More than 45 dead after Ida’s remnants blindside Northeast

By Bobby Caina Calvan, David Porter And Jennifer Peltz Photo: AP Photo/Craig Ruttle
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…
Sep 02 2021
TIME

U.S. Civil Engineers Bent the Rules to Give New Orleans Extra Protection from Hurricanes. Those Adjustments Might Have Saved the City During Ida

By Alejandro De La Garza
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…
Sep 02 2021
Yale Climate Connections

Northeast pummeled with colossal flooding, destructive tornadoes

By Bob Henson and Jeff Masters Photo: Piyush Patel
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…
Sep 02 2021
The New York Times

43 Die as Deadliest Storm Since Sandy Devastates the Northeast

By Andy Newman Photo: Bryan Anselm
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,…
Sep 02 2021
The New York Times

The Truth Is That You Can’t Protect Everything From Every Hurricane

By Robert S. Young Photo: Emily Kask for The New York Times
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.…
Sep 01 2021
Politico

Ida churns up tension on infrastructure vs. climate change

By Zack Colman Photo: Steve Helber/AP Photo
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.
Sep 01 2021
AP

Power makes slow return to eastern New Orleans

By AP Photo: Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP
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…
Aug 28 2021
Yale Climate Connections

Intensifying Hurricane Ida a significant threat to key infrastructure

By Jeff Masters and Bob Henson Photo: NOAA/RAMMB/Colorado State University
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…
07/21/22

…the national climate emergency declaration….that wasn’t

ARTICLE
Tangle News

A climate change emergency

By Isaac Saul PhotO: Li-An Lim / Unsplash 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…
Jul 21 2022
The New York Times

What Would a Climate Emergency Mean? Here Are 4 Key Points.

By Elena Shao Photo: Doug Mills, The New York Times
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…
Jul 21 2022
The Hill

What would declaring a national climate emergency do?

By Rachel Frazin Photo: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
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…
Jul 20 2022
The New York Times

Biden Announces Plans to Deal With Climate ‘Emergency’

By Coral Davenport and Others Photo: Nick Oxford, The New York Times
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…
Jul 20 2022
The Washington Post

Here’s what could happen if Biden declares a climate emergency

By Dino Grandoni Photo: Dawn Bottoms
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…
Jul 20 2022
GIZMODO

What Would a Biden Climate Emergency Declaration Actually Do?

By Lauren Leffer Photo: Evan Vucci (AP)
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…
Jul 20 2022
Yahoo News

What it would mean for Biden to declare a national climate emergency

By Ben Adler
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…
Jul 20 2022
Center For Biological Diversity

Biden Stops Short of Declaring National Climate Emergency

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…
Jul 20 2022
The Crucial Years

The Curious Backstory of the ‘Climate Emergency’

By Bill McKibben
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…
Jul 19 2022
The New York Times

Trying to Salvage His Climate Agenda, Biden Weighs a National Emergency

By Lisa Friedman and others Photo: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times
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…
Jul 19 2022
The Washington Post

Biden eyes climate emergency declaration as Democrats demand swift action

By Tony Romm and Others Photo: Bill O' Leary
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…
Jul 19 2022
The Guardian

Biden under pressure to declare climate emergency after Manchin torpedoes bill

By David Smith and Chris Stein Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images
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…
Jul 19 2022
E&E News

What happens if Biden declares a climate emergency?

By Kelsey Brugger and others Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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.…
Feb 07 2022
www.biologicaldiversity.org

The climate president’s Emergency powers

By Jean Su and Maya Golden-Krasner
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

ARTICLE
The Washington Post

Manchin says he won’t support new climate spending or tax hikes on wealthy

By Tony Romm and Jeff Stein Photo: Tom Brenner 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…
Jul 28 2022
Center For Biological Diversity

Manchin Poison Pills Buried in Inflation Reduction Act Will Destroy Livable Climate

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…
Jul 25 2022
mailchi.mp

By Not Acting on Climate, Congress Endangers U.S. National Security

By Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O'Sullivan Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty Images
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…
Jul 20 2022
The Atlantic

We’ve Had Other Climate Defeats. This One Is by Far the Weirdest.

By Robinson Meyer Photo: Bloomberg / Getty
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…
Jul 18 2022
The New York Times

Climate politics are worse than you think

By Paul Krugman Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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…
Jul 18 2022
The Washington Post

The U.S. plan to avoid extreme climate change is running out of time

By Chris Mooney and Others
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…
Jul 16 2022
The New York Times

What Joe Manchin Cost Us

By Leah C. Stokes Photo: Al Drago
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…
Jul 15 2022
Bloomberg

Biden Team Slow-Walked Green Agenda in Failed Bid to Woo Manchin

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy & Others Photo: Al Drago
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…
Jul 15 2022
The New York Times

Four Ways the United States Can Still Fight Climate Change

By Coral Davenport Photo: T.J. Kirkpatrick
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…
Jul 15 2022
The New York Times

Manchin Dangles Hopes of a Future Compromise. Democrats Revolt.

By Emily Cochrane Photo: Haiyun Jiang
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…
Jul 15 2022
The New York Times

Biden Concedes Defeat on Climate Bill as Manchin and Inflation Upend Agenda

By Jim Tankersley and others Photo: Doug Mills
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…
Jul 15 2022
The New York Times

How One Senator Doomed the Democrats’ Climate Plan

By Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman Photo: Al Drago
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…
Jul 15 2022
CNN

Biden vows to use executive action after Manchin torpedoes climate agenda

By Betsy Klein and others
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…
Jul 15 2022
NBC NEWS

Manchin balks at climate and tax pieces of Biden agenda bill but backs health care provisions

By Sahil Kapur, Frank Thorp V and Julie Tsirkin
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…
Jul 15 2022
Bloomberg

Manchin Crushes Biden’s Hopes for Revival of Economic Agenda

By Ari Natter, Steven T. Dennis, and Colin Wilhelm Photo: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg
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…
Jul 15 2022
Rolling Stone

Manchin to Block Tax Hikes on Rich, Climate Spending in Economic Package

By Kat Bouza Photo: Tom Williams/Pool photo via AP
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…
Jul 15 2022
AP News

Dem says Manchin blocking energy, tax provisions in big bill

By Alan Fram Photo: Tom Williams/Pool photo via AP, File
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…
Jul 14 2022
The New York Times

Here’s How Democrats’ Big Domestic Agenda Bill Has Shrunk

By Emily Cochrane Photo: Haiyun Jiang
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…
Jul 14 2022
The New York Times

Manchin Pulls Plug on Climate and Tax Talks, Shrinking Domestic Plan

By Emily Cochrane and Lisa Friedman Photo: Kenny Holston
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…
Jul 12 2022
The New York Times

Manchin, playing to the home crowd, is fighting electric cars to the end

By Coral Davenport, Lisa Friedman and Hiroko Tabuchi Photo: Pete Marovich for The New York Times
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…
Jun 30 2022
Forbes

Supreme Court Curbs EPA’s Power To Regulate Emissions And Fight Climate Change

By Alison Durkee Photo: Getty Images
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…
Mar 27 2022
The New York Times

How Joe Manchin Aided Coal, and Earned Millions

By Christopher Flavelle and Julie Tate Photo: Erin Schaff
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…
Jan 05 2022
Nexus Media News

Manchin: Agreement on Climate Possible, Continues Pushing Fossils

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…
Oct 20 2021
Nexus Media News

West Virginians Struggle to Pay Bills, Manchin Cashes In On Coal

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

ARTICLE
The Washington Post

Supreme Court’s EPA ruling upends Biden’s environmental agenda

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…
www.supremecourt.gov

Ruling: West virginia et al. V. Environmental Protection agency et al.

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.…
Jul 18 2022
E&E News

Supreme Court muzzles EPA on climate

By Pamela King Photo: Francis Chung
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…
Jul 18 2022
ehn.org

Op-ed: Reflections on the Supreme Court’s Decision in West Virginia v. EPA

By John Holdren
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…
Jul 10 2022
Rewiring America

The sky hasn’t fallen, but it has darkened. And what we must do about it

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…
Jul 07 2022
The New York Times

E.P.A. Describes How It Will Regulate Power Plants After Supreme Court Setback

By Lisa Friedman Photo: Dane Rhys , Reuters
“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…
Jul 07 2022
The New York Times

As Federal Climate-Fighting Tools Are Taken Away, Cities and States Step Up

By Maggie Astor Photo: Ryan David Brown , The New York Times
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…
Jul 06 2022
The Washington Post

The Supreme Court’s EPA ruling was the beginning of something bigger

By Maxine Joselow Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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…
Jul 01 2022
Media Matters

Climate deniers celebrate ruling limiting government power to tackle climate change

By Allison Fisher and Ted MacDonald Photo: Molly Butler / Media Matters
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…
Jul 01 2022
ClimateXchange

The Supreme Court Stripped EPA’s Power to Cut Emissions — How Can States Respond?

By Climatexchange Staff Photo: Amanda Pontillo & Others
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…
Jul 01 2022
The New York Times

Supreme Court ruling gives leverage to businesses

By Andrew Ross Sorkin Photo: Anna Rose Layden
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…
Jul 01 2022
The Crucial Years

Be the Backlash!

By Bill McKibben
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.
Jul 01 2022
AP News

Supreme Court Limits Epa In Curbing Power Plant Emissions

By Mark Sherman Photo: Rick Bowmer
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…
Jul 01 2022
Vanity Fair

“I cannot think of many things more frightening”: the supreme court has declared war on governing

By Cristian Farias Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images
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…
Jul 01 2022
The New York Times

The Supreme Court Sabotages Efforts to Protect Public Health and Safety

By The Editorial Board Photo: Garen Meguerian, via Getty Images
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…
Jun 30 2022
Audubon

Supreme Court Ruling Deals a Blow to Biden’s Climate Agenda

By Andy McGlashen Photo: Luke Franke
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…
Jun 30 2022
The New York Times

What Is the Clean Air Act?

By Coral Davenport Photo: Melissa Lyttle
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…
Jun 30 2022
The New York Times

The climate math just got harder

By Manuela Andreoni Photo: Victor J. Blue , The New York Times
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…
Jun 30 2022
The Hill

Read full text: Supreme Court decision curbing EPA climate powers

By The Hill Staff Photo: Jim Cole , Associated Press
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…
Jun 30 2022
The New York Times

The most profound effect of West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency may ultimately be cultural

By David Wallace-Wells
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…
Jun 30 2022
CBS NEWS

Supreme Court limits EPA’s authority to regulate power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions

By Melissa Quinn, Li Cohen
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…
Jun 30 2022
The New York Times

Supreme Court Limits E.P.A.’s Ability to Restrict Power Plant Emissions

By Adam Liptak Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg
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…
Jun 30 2022
The Wall Street Journal

Supreme Court Puts Brakes on EPA in Far-Reaching Decision

By Jan Wolfe and Timothy Puko
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…
Jun 30 2022
Huffpost

Supreme Court Sharply Limits Regulation Of Carbon Emissions

By Paul Blumenthal and Alexander C. Kaufman
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…
Jun 30 2022
The Guardian

US supreme court rules against EPA and hobbles government power to limit harmful emissions

By Oliver Milman Photo: David Hawxhurst/Alamy
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…
Jun 30 2022
The New Yorker

The Supreme Court Tries to Overrule the Climate

By Bill McKibben
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…
Jun 30 2022
Wired

The Supreme Court Is Jeopardizing Federal Climate Action

By Gregory Barber Photo: Luke Sharrett/bloomberg/getty Images
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…
Jun 30 2022
Treehugger

US Supreme Court Votes to Cook the Planet by Limiting EPA’s Power

By Lloyd Alter
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…
Jun 30 2022
Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court limits federal power to curb carbon emissions

By Lawrence Hurley and Valerie Volcovici
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…
Jun 30 2022
The New York Times

Court Decision Leaves Biden With Few Tools to Combat Climate Change

By Coral Davenport Photo: Kenny Holston
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…
Jun 30 2022
Time

What the Supreme Court’s Ruling on the ‘Clean Air Act’ Means for Carbon Emissions

By Emily Barone Photo: George Frey/Getty Images
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…
Jun 30 2022
The Guardian

‘Condemning everyone alive’: outrage at US supreme court climate ruling

By Ayurella Horn-Muller Photo: Radius Images/Alamy
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…
Jun 30 2022
The Washington Post

What you need to know about the Supreme Court’s EPA case

By Dino Grandoni Photo: Dane Rhys/Reuters
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…
Jun 30 2022
Axios

Supreme Court reins in Biden’s power on climate change

By Ben Geman and Andrew Freedman Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
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…
06/22/22

…wildfires

ARTICLE
The New York Times

Track Wildfires in the West

By Matthew Bloch, Bea Malsky and Others 06/22/22
The map includes active and recent fires reported by the Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services Group. The locations of the fires on the map are…
Sep 13 2022
Climate Signals

Wildfires

Climate change is increasing the size, frequency, and intensity of wildfires as well as the length of the fire season. All fire needs to burn…
Sep 12 2022
CNN

Oregon wildfire explodes in size as multiple blazes rage across the West

By Nouran Salahieh
An outburst of wildfires that broke out over the past week amid triple-digital temperatures across the West has forced thousands of evacuations and choked the…
Sep 09 2022
The New York Times

As Wildfires Grow, Millions of Homes Are Being Built in Harm’s Way

By Nadja Popovich and Others
Across the Western United States, wildfires are growing larger and more severe as global warming intensifies. At the same time, new data shows, more Americans…
Sep 02 2022
The New York Times

California wildfire burns at least 50 structures and forces thousands to flee.

By Mandy Feder- Sawyer and Others Photo: Neal Waters, Shutterstocks
A wind-whipped fire that erupted near a defunct lumber mill in Northern California on Friday and became a fast-moving inferno has destroyed at least 50…
Aug 24 2022
Grist

Wildfire smoke is choking Indigenous communities

By Diana Kruzman Photo: Diana Kruzman and Others, Grist
On July 29, 2021, Li Boyd woke up to the smell of smoke. It was her birthday — she was turning 38 — and she…
Aug 01 2022
The New York Times

Why Does the American West Have So Many Wildfires?

By Winston Choi-Schagrin and Others Photo: David McNew, Getty Images
In just one weekend, the McKinney Fire, fueled by strong winds and high temperatures, burned more than 55,000 acres in Northern California, becoming the state’s…
Jul 13 2022
Forbes

How wildfires impact our health, as well as the environment

By Jamie Hailstone Photo: AFP via Getty Images
It is a sad truth that many parts of the world - including various parts of the United States - are now facing an increased…
Jul 13 2022
The Conversation

A case for retreat in the age of fire

By Emily E. Schlickman and Others Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Wildfires are getting larger, more frequent and more severe in many areas. Although efforts are underway to create fire-adapted communities, it’s important to realize that…
Jul 09 2022
The Los Angeles Times

Out-of-control Yosemite fire threatens iconic giant sequoias

By Alex Wigglesworth and Diana Marcum Photo: National Park Service via Associated Press
The first that Michael Gilbert, a 67-year-old rock climber and bellman, heard of the fire in Yosemite National Park was from a mother and daughter…
Jul 07 2022
The Guardian

‘All that’s needed is a spark’: why the US may be headed for a summer of mega-fire

By Gabrielle Canon Photo: Marc Piscotty, Getty Images
Fire activity is expected to increase in several US states over the coming months, according to a newly released outlook from the National Interagency Fire…
Jul 06 2022
The Washington Post

Extreme lightning sparks more Alaska wildfires in already historic season

By Jacob Feuerstein and Joshua Partlow Photo: Pat Johnson , AP
An unusual spate of lightning has ignited more than 50 new wildfires in Alaska, worsening air quality, spurring communities to prepare to evacuate and exacerbating…
Jun 24 2022
AP News

Recent rain allows forests in US Southwest to reopen

Photo: Mike Sorensen , AP
The monsoon has delivered much-needed moisture to the parched region and relief from scorching temperatures. Forecasters say Arizona has a good chance of getting above-average…
Jun 23 2022
The Washington Post

Arizona wildfires gut observatory buildings, endanger artifacts

By Marisa Iati Photo: Rachel Gibbons/Arizona Daily Sun/AP
In the latest example of the expanding reach of wildfires, a trio of blazes in Arizona has gutted several buildings at a national observatory, forced…
Jun 20 2022
The New York Times

A wildfire year

By Ashley Wu and Matthew Cullen Photo: Adria Malcolm
The American West is burning more quickly than it has in a decade. New Mexico has been fighting its two biggest wildfires on record for…
Jun 19 2022
The New York Times

Arizona Wildfire Destroys Observatory Buildings

By Neelam Bohra Photo: KPNO/NOIRLab
The fire, known as the Contreras fire, has scorched more than 18,000 acres, twisting among Indigenous-populated areas in the state near Tucson, and scientists might…
Jun 17 2022
Los Angeles Times

Pollution from California’s 2020 wildfires likely offset decades of air quality gains

By Tony Briscoe Photo: Brian Van Der Brug , Los Angeles Times
In an analysis published this week in the annual Air Quality Life Index, researchers found that wildfire smoke probably offset decades of state and federal…
Jun 13 2022
The New York Times

California Wildfire Scorches Nearly 1,000 Acres and Prompts Evacuations

By Christine Chung
A fast-moving wildfire in California’s Angeles National Forest has grown to nearly 1,000 acres in a little more than a day, prompting road closures and…
Jun 13 2022
cnn

Hundreds are urged to evacuate due to wildfire near Flagstaff, Arizona, as thousands more are told to prepare to leave

By Elizabeth Wolfe & Others
The Pipeline Fire was first reported by a fire lookout at around 10:15 a.m. Sunday and has grown to 4,500 acres, according to InciWeb, a…
Jun 01 2022
The New York Times

A ‘Perfect Recipe for Extreme Wildfire’: New Mexico’s Record-Breaking, Early Fire Season

By Tim Wallace and Nadja Popovich Photo: Jim Weber via Associated Press
Fueled by abnormally dry, warm conditions and spread by strong winds, wildfires have burned more than 600,000 acres across New Mexico this spring — making…
May 16 2022
The New York Times

Here Are the Wildfire Risks to Homes Across the Lower 48 States

By Christopher Flavelle and Nadja Popovich Photo: Chris Caldwell / The Spectrum
The nation’s wildfire risk is widespread, severe and accelerating quickly, according to new data that, for the first time, calculates the risk facing every property…
May 16 2022
The Washington Post

1 in 6 Americans live in areas with significant wildfire risk

By John Muyskens, Andrew Ba Tran, Naema Ahmed and Anna Phillips Photo: Mapbox
When a wildfire tore through drought-stricken towns near Boulder, Colo., late last year, it reminded Americans that fire risk is changing. It didn’t matter that…
May 12 2022
The Washington Post

How the future trees of New Mexico were almost destroyed by wildfires

By Elizabeth Miller Photo: Leslie Edgar/New Mexico State University
Saving tree seedlings critical to restoring forests in the Southwest from the fires ripping through northern New Mexico took four trucks and three trailers —…
May 07 2022
The Washington Post

‘Potentially historic’ wildfire event threatens New Mexico, Southwest

By Matthew Cappucci & Jason Samenow Photo: Robert Browman , AP
Critical-to-extreme wildfire conditions are about to take hold of the southwestern United States and parts of Colorado, leading into what could be a lengthy, multiday…
May 04 2022
The New York Times

Smoke and sandstorm, seen from space

By Maggie Astor Photo: NOAA
A time-lapse image of smoke from wildfires in New Mexico and dust from a storm in Colorado illustrates the scope of Western catastrophe. The video…
May 03 2022
The Guardian

New Mexico governor urges Biden to declare wildfires a disaster to free funds

Photo: Kevin Mohatt , Reuters
New Mexico’s governor on Tuesday asked President Joe Biden to declare a disaster as firefighters scrambled to clear brush, build fire lines and spray water…
Apr 28 2022
The Washington Post

Massive wildfires helped fuel global forest losses in 2021

By John Muyskens, Naema Ahmed and Others Photo: Salwan Georges / AP
Unprecedented wildfires raged across Russia in 2021, burning vast swaths of forest, sending smoke as far as the North Pole and unleashing astounding amounts of…
Mar 31 2022
AP

Wildfire near Smoky Mountains prompts mandatory evacuations

Firefighters sought to get a handle Wednesday on a wildfire spreading near Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, amid mandatory evacuations as winds whipped…
Mar 30 2022
Grist

It’s official: Larger, more frequent wildfires are here

By Lina Tran Photo: Michael Ciaglo , Getty Images
It’s nearly three months into 2022, and the country has already seen wildfires burning across Florida, Texas, and Colorado. Hundreds of thousands of acres have…
Mar 23 2022
UCDavis

Older Wildfire Smoke Plumes Can Affect Climate

By Emily Dooley
Aerosols carried in wildfire smoke plumes that are hundreds of hours old can still affect climate, according to a study out of the University of…
Mar 17 2022
Inside Climate News

Recent Megafire Smoke Columns Have Reached the Stratosphere, Threatening Earth’s Ozone Shield

By Bob Berwyn Photo: Peter Parks
Scientists researching how the recent spike in extreme wildfires affects the climate say that just a few weeks of smoke surging high into the stratosphere…
Feb 16 2022
The Washington Post

Wildfires are becoming more intense at night and lasting longer, study finds

By Kasha Patel Photo: Bethany Baker/AP
Nighttime-fire intensity in the U.S. West has increased by 28 percent over the past two decades.
Jan 05 2022
The Modesto Bee

Dixie Fire caused by PG&E, Cal Fire says. Fire was second largest in California history

By Dale Kasler and Rosalio Ahumada
Cal Fire said Tuesday that investigators have determined that a tree contacting Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power lines caused last summer’s Dixie Fire, which…
Jan 03 2022
ProPublica

California’s forever fire

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.
Dec 31 2021
The Washington Post

‘Total devastation’ after wildfire charges through Colorado towns

By Ari Schneider, Jennifer Oldham, Marisa Iati and Emmanuel Felton Photo: Brittany Peterson/AP
More than 500 families may enter a new year having lost their homes after runaway grass fires bore down on the region northwest of Denver…
Dec 02 2021
The New York Times

Prairies on Fire in Montana Amid a Record December Heat Wave

By Jim Robbins Photo: Lynn Donaldson
Record-high temperatures and powerful winds have sparked a series of unusual December prairie fires in Montana, one of a series of late-season fires across the…
More related articles
06/05/22

…Drought Dries up the West

ARTICLE
The New York Times

A ‘Perfect Recipe for Extreme Wildfire’: New Mexico’s Record-Breaking, Early Fire Season

By Tim Wallace and Nadja Popovich Photo: Jim Weber via Associated Press 06/01/22
Fueled by abnormally dry, warm conditions and spread by strong winds, wildfires have burned more than 600,000 acres across New Mexico this spring — making…
Jul 22 2022
The New York Times

See How Far Water Levels in Lake Mead Have Fallen

By Winston Choi-Schagrin Photo: David Becker, Reuters
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…
Jul 07 2022
Los Angeles Times

California deepens water cuts to cope with drought, hitting thousands of farms

By Ian James and Others Photo: Allen J. Schaben, The Los Angeles Times
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…
Jun 16 2022
The Washington Post

Extreme heat and humidity kill thousands of cattle in Kansas

By Amy Cheng Photo: Christopher Smith , Washington Post
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…
Jun 16 2022
The Washington Post

These maps illustrate the seriousness of the western drought

By Kasha Patel and Lauren Tierney
Much of the West is already experiencing severe to exceptional drought, but scorching summer temperatures will dry out the parched landscape even more...
Jun 07 2022
The New York Times

As the Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah faces an ‘environmental nuclear bomb’

By Christopher Flavelle Photo: Bryan Tarnowski
Climate change and rapid population growth are shrinking the lake, creating a bowl of toxic dust that could poison the air around Salt Lake City.
Jun 04 2022
Medium

A Day Without Rain Is Like 22 Years In America’s Southwest

By Arthur Keith Photo: Raychel Sanner
The Southwest is melting down. Between the heat and lack of moisture, it’s become an inferno. This year is already worse than last year, which…
Jun 03 2022
watereducation.org

Colorado River: Serving as the “lifeline of the Southwest”

Serving as the “lifeline of the Southwest,” and one of the most heavily regulated rivers in the world, the Colorado River provides water to 35…
Jun 03 2022
PBS NEWS HOUR

Megadrought causes perilously low water levels at Lake Mead

The megadrought currently choking the western United States is the worst drought in the region in more than 1,000 years. It's having an enormous impact…
Jun 01 2022
Yahoo News

Las Vegas to save 10 billion gallons of water with new plan amid megadrought

Millions of people in southern California are facing new water restrictions thanks to a megadrought crippling the Southwest. But southern Nevada has been conserving water…
May 31 2022
Energywire - E&E News

Southwest megadrought pushes hydropower to the brink

By Jason Plautz Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
As the megadrought gripping the Southwest stretches into its third decade, energy providers are preparing for a future where hydropower is no longer a reliable…
May 20 2022
Yahoo News

Lake Mead could still tank in 2023, despite all we’ve done to save it

By Joanna Allhands
Whatever buffer we may have had (or thought we had) at Lake Mead, it is quickly disappearing. The May 24-month study makes that plain. The…
May 20 2022
Yahoo News

The American West should brace for a blackout summer, electricity regulator warns

By Tristan Bove Photo: George Rose—Getty Images
Electricity shortages and blackouts are increasingly possible for the American West this summer, as an electrical operator warns of “out-of-the-ordinary” conditions.
May 09 2022
Reuters

Wildfire threatens ‘cultural genocide’ in New Mexico villages

By Andrew Hay Photo: Reuters/Kevin Mohatt
Miguel Gandert does not know whether his family's 19th-century log home has been burned by a New Mexico wildfire, but he fears the blaze could…
May 07 2022
The Spectrum

Colorado River drought may be the ‘new normal’ and living with it will be costly, leaders say

By Brandon Loomis Photo: Mark Henle
Arizona needs to rapidly invest in both water conservation and new supplies to offset losses from a shrinking Colorado River, the state’s top water officials…
May 03 2022
The New York Times

Is that an outlaw lawn? Las Vegas has a new approach to saving water

By Henry Fountain Photo: Joe Buglewicz
With drought and growth taking a toll on the Colorado River, the source of 90 percent of the region’s water, a new law mandates the…
Apr 29 2022
CNN

Lake Mead plummets to unprecedented low, exposing original 1971 water intake valve

By Stephanie Elam
The West is in the grips of a climate change-fueled megadrought, and Lake Mead -- the largest manmade reservoir in the country and a source…
Apr 28 2022
Los Angeles Times

Southern California ‘cannot afford green lawns’ as drought forces unprecedented water cuts

By Hayley Smith , Ian James & Others Photo: Frederic J. Brown , Getty Images
Millions of Southern California residents are bracing for less water and many brown lawns as drought and climate change leave a large swath of the…
Apr 12 2022
Axios

California’s driest start to the year sparks water, wildfire concerns

By Andrew Freedman
California is entering the dry season with its water resources in a precarious position, having seen its driest start to the year on record. A…
Apr 06 2022
National Science Foundation

The longest drought, redefined

Maps of the American West have featured ever darker shades of red over the past two decades. The colors illustrate the unprecedented drought blighting the…
Apr 01 2022
Pacific Institute

Snowpack Report Underscores Need for Transformative Changes to Address Record-Setting California Drought

By Heather Cooley, Dr. Peter Gleick and Others
The severe California drought is continuing for a third year, and there will be major consequences for ecosystems, agriculture, and urban and rural water users…
Mar 23 2022
AP News

Hot spring forecast: Drought deepens in West, flooding ebbs

By Seth Borenstein
There’s no relief in sight for the West’s record-shattering megadrought, which will likely only deepen this spring, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in…
Feb 15 2022
The Guardian

US west ‘megadrought’ is worst in at least 1,200 years, new study says

By Gabrielle Canon Photo: Patrick T Fallon/Getty Images
The American west has spent the last two decades in what scientists are now saying is the most extreme megadrought in at least 1,200 years.…
Feb 14 2022
NPR

Study finds Western megadrought is the worst in 1,200 years

By Nathan Rott Photo: Claire Harbage/NPR
Shrunk reservoirs. Depleted aquifers. Low rivers. Raging wildfires. It's no secret that the Western U.S. is in a severe drought. New research published Monday shows…
04/22/22

…where are we on this Earth Day outside of 2.6˚warmer than in 1970?

ARTICLE
The Crucial Years

Earth Day is a Time for…Anger

By Bill McKibben Photo: Substack 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…
Apr 23 2022
GIZMODO

Vintage Earth Day TV Ads, Ranked

By Angely Mercado
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…
Apr 22 2022
Evergreen Action

Take Earth Day Back to Its Roots: Call Your Senators!

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!
Apr 22 2022
USGS

To celebrate Earth Day, the USGS is launching the new Climate Science Explorer section of the website

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…
Apr 22 2022
The Washington Post

Seeds of hope: How nature inspires scientists to confront climate change

By Washington Post Staff
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…
Apr 22 2022
Wired

Take Action Against Climate Change With These Tools and Resources

By Heather Higinbotham Davies
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…
Apr 22 2022
Earthday.org

52 Ways To Invest In Our Planet.

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…
Apr 22 2022
John Englander Blog

Earth Day 2022: Temperatures Rising

By John Englande
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…
Apr 22 2022
The Washington Post

The best stories our climate journalists covered this past year

By Washington Post Staff Photo: iStock
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 —…
Apr 21 2022
USGS

Happy Earth Day! Check Out Our Earth Day Climate Change Puzzle & USGS Climate Science Solutions!

By Climate Adaptation Science Centers
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!
Apr 21 2022
The Washington Post

Biden to issue Earth Day order to safeguard old-growth forests

By Anna Phillips Photo: Salwan Georges
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…
Apr 21 2022
McKinsey Sustainability

Charting net zero: Insights on what the transition could look like

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…
Apr 20 2022
Yale Climate Connections

12 books for another Earth Day in the warming climate

By Michael Svoboda
It’s a long list of environmental issues that affect and are affected by climate change. Here are some essential readings on that intersection. The post…
04/13/22

…the relationship between war and climate change

ARTICLE
The New York Times

A ‘Silent Victim’: How Nature Becomes a Casualty of War

By Emily Anthes Photo: Daniel Berehulak 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…
Apr 20 2022
abc news

Experts predict lasting environmental damage from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

By Julia Jacobo Photo: Anastasia Vlasova , Getty Images
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…
Apr 19 2022
The Washington Post

War in Ukraine poses environmental risk now and in the future, advocates say

By Vanessa Montalbano Photo: Efrem Lukatsky , AP
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…
Apr 15 2022
NPR

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a fossil fuel war, climate scientist says

By Ari Shapiro, Ashish Valentine, Karen Zamora, and Amy Isackson Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images
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,…
Apr 12 2022
CLIMATE WIRE

Military experts urge climate-focused foreign aid

By Thomas Frank Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images
'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…
Jun 14 2021
CEOBS

How does war contribute to climate change?

Photo: Elliot Plack/Flickr
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...
May 28 2021
dw.com

Scorched earth: The climate impact of conflict

By Stuart Braun Photo: J. Jordan
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…
Nov 13 2019
watson.brown.edu

Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War

By Neta C. Crawford
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…
Sep 15 2019
The Intercept

War on the World

Murtaza Hussain Photo: Sebastian Meyer/Getty Images
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…
Sep 12 2019
Watson Inst. Brown

Costs and Consequences of US Post-9/11 Wars: Focus on Climate Change

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…
Jan 10 2018
NATURE

Warfare and wildlife declines in Africa’s protected areas

By Joshua H. Daskin and Robert M. Pringle
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…
Aug 09 2012
The New York Times

4 Decades on, U.S. Starts Cleanup of Agent Orange in Vietnam

By Thomas Fuller Photo: Maika Elan/Associated Press
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…
Jul 08 2010
The Guardian

What’s the carbon footprint of … the Iraq war?

By Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark Photo: Maxim Marmur/AFP/Getty
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…
May 25 2009
Amazon

The Carbon Footprint Wars: What Might Happen If We Retreat From Globalization?

By Stuart Sim
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…
May 15 2009
Conservation Biology

Warfare in Biodiversity Hotspots

By Thor Hanson, Thomas M. Brooks and Others
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!”

ARTICLE
The New York Times

Stopping Climate Change Is Doable, but Time Is Short, U.N. Panel Warns

By Brad Plumer and Raymond Zhong Photo: Michael Sohn/Associated Press 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…
Apr 16 2022
BBC

Climate change: Key UN finding widely misinterpreted

By Matt Mcgrath Photo: Mario Tama
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…
Apr 13 2022
Volts

Podcast: Paulina Jaramillo on the IPCC’s new climate-solutions report

By David Roberts Photo: Paulina Jaramillo
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) —…
Apr 12 2022
Treehugger

Individual Actions Can Reduce Emissions Up to 70%, Says IPCC Report

By Lloyd Alter Photo: Leonardo Patrizi , Getty Images
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…
Apr 08 2022
The Washington Post

In the race to slow warming, the chorus for cutting methane grows louder

By Brady Dennis Photo: Matthew Brown/AP
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…
Apr 07 2022
Time

We Have the Technology to Solve Climate Change. What We Need Is Political Will

By Alejandro de la Garza
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…
Apr 06 2022
Yale Climate Connections

New IPCC report: Only political will stands in way of meeting the Paris targets

By Dana Nuccitelli
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…
Apr 05 2022
Forbes

Climate Critical: 5 Big Takeaways From The IPCC Mitigation Report, According To Experts

By David Vetter Photo: Nur photo Via Getty Images
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…
Apr 05 2022
PBS News Hour

UN climate report warns governments are falling short on lowering planet’s temperature

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…
Apr 05 2022
nbcnews.com

U.N. report outlines possible solutions for climate change and its societal impact

By Evan Bush
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…
Apr 05 2022
Carbon Brief

In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how to tackle climate change

Instead, emissions have continued to rise – albeit at a slowing rate – and it will be “impossible” to stay below 1.5C with “no or…
Apr 05 2022
AP NEWS

UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’

By Frank Jordans and Seth Borenstein Photo: Michael Probst/AP Photo
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…
Apr 04 2022
The Washington Post

The world is running out of options to hit climate goals, U.N. report shows

By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis Photo: Miguel Riopa/AFP/Getty Images
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…
Apr 04 2022
Civileats

The Field Report: New UN Climate Report Urges Food Systems Solutions—Before It’s Too Late

By Lisa Held
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…
Apr 04 2022
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Renewables Are Key to Cutting Emissions Over Next Decade, U.N. Panel Says

By Nidhi Subbaraman Photo: Theo Stroomer
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…
Apr 04 2022
USA TODAY

‘It’s now or never’: UN climate report shows globe is on ‘track toward an unlivable world’

By Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver Photo: Michael Probst/AP Photo
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…
Apr 04 2022
POPULAR SCIENCE

Climate action is a ‘now or never’ situation, IPCC warns

By Sara Kiley Watson Photo: Dan Meyers/Unsplash
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…
Apr 04 2022
PBS

We have the tools to save the planet from climate change. Politics is getting in the way, new IPCC report says

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas
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…
Apr 04 2022
E&E NEWS

IPCC: For climate goals, it’s ‘now or never’

By Chelsea Harvey Photo: Jes Aznar/Getty Images
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…
Apr 04 2022
THE HILL

UN calls for ‘substantial reduction’ in fossil fuels to limit climate change

By Rachel Frazin Photo: Martin Meissner/AP Photo
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…
Apr 04 2022
GRIST

‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future

By Lina Tran and Joseph Winters Photo: Federico Gambarini/Getty Images
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…
Apr 04 2022
Yale Environment 360

New UN Climate Report Outlines Failure of Existing Policies, Need for Rapid Emissions Cuts

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…
Apr 04 2022
GIZMODO

‘It’s Now Or Never’: We Have 3 Years to Reverse Course, Major Climate Report Finds

By Molly Taft Photo: Michael Probst/AP Photo
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…
Apr 04 2022
The Boston Globe

‘A file of shame’: Major UN climate report shows world is on track for catastrophic levels of warming

By Dharna Noor Photo: Mike Eliason/Associated Press
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…
Apr 04 2022
Wired

Technology can fix the climate mess—but not without help

By Matt Simon Photo: Richard Newstead/getty Images
Another damning IPCC report insists that to reduce emissions, humanity will need more political willpower and help from nature's carbon-sequestering powers.
Apr 04 2022
The Conversation

Revolutionary changes in transportation could slow global warming

By Alan Jenn Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
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…
Apr 04 2022
Forbes

Emissions must peak in 3 years to avoid worst climate change impacts

By Nicholas Reimann Photo: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images
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…
Apr 04 2022
TIME

The new IPCC report was delayed as scientists debated carbon capture

By Ciara Nugent Photo: Getty Images—Abstract Aerial Art
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…
Apr 04 2022
The New York Times

5 takeaways from the U.N. report on limiting global warming

By Raymond Zhong Photo: Dan Peled/Getty Images
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…
Apr 04 2022
National Geographic

‘It’s now or never’: UN climate report’s 4 urgent takeaways

By Kieran Mulvaney Photo: David Guttenfelder, Nat Geo Image Collection
To limit warming to manageable levels, the world has only a few years to stop using fossil fuels completely.
Mar 18 2022
AXIOS

Behind the curtain of the UN’s climate panel

By Andrew Freedman Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
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…
Mar 04 2022
Triple Pundit

The Top Water Takeaways From the IPCC Report

By Kate Zerrenner Photo: Fabio Santaniello Bruun and Nathan Dumlao
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…
Aug 09 2021
The New York Times

A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us.

By Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain Photo: David Swanson/Reuters
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,…
03/21/22

...misinformation, disinformation, dark money and greenwashing

ARTICLE
EXPOSED BY CMD

The Dirty Dozen: The Biggest Nonprofit Funders of Climate Denial

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…
May 25 2022
The Intercept

Big fossil’