BLOGS
There are a number of extraordinary sites, many of which have been around for decades, publishing blogs (often called newsletters): Skeptical Science is one whose mission is simple:debunk climate misinformation by presenting peer-reviewed science and explaining the techniques of science denial, discourses of climate delay, and climate solutions denial. Grist is another, reporting on topics like politics, energy, equity and solutions as they intersect with climate. EcoWatch is a third -- a community of experts publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions for a healthier planet and life.
Other blogs, although aligned with major websites, have their own name. Climate Central, for example, has a blog called Climate Matters, and the Union of Concerned Scientists has a blog called The Equation -- both of which aim to combat climate misinformation and “PR pollution” with deeply researched articles on a broad range of topics relating to climate.
Great writers on climate change have created their own blogs, such as John Englander on sea level rise; Joel Stronberg on the intersection of politics and climate change; Emily Atkins at Heated (a newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis) ,and Bill McKibben at The Crucial Years whose work is also published at The New Yorker.
A number are finding their way to platforms like Substack and Medium, which allow both community members and experts to cultivate direct relationships with audiences and develop content outside of traditional publishing. Check out this list of the top 25 climate and environment newsletters on Substack, including ones focused on wildfire policy, battery tech, or viral climate comedy. You can also find the leaderboard of Substack’s climate bestsellers.
With articles on everything from sustainable music festivals to green burial practices, these blogs demonstrate the diversity and range of climate change content, how it affects and touches everything in our world. Whether your niche is fashion, composting, poetry, or coloring books, there is probably a blog connecting that area to the climate crisis in creative and informative ways.
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By Joel B. Stronberg
It’s unlikely there will come a time in Trump’s second presidency when he’ll admit to a crisis passing. At least for the next year, there’s even less likelihood that the Republican Congress will challenge the president on his questionable emergencies or act to solve them itself.
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A birding blog attentive to climate change impacts.
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By Joel B. Stronberg
Venice has its pigeons and Capistrano its swallows. Flying over the White House and Capitol Hill these days are birds of a different feather – chickens. Part 1 of A Tale of Government Most Fowl focused primarily on Trump’s cluckers, e.g., tariffs, inflation, and governance, most associated with President Trump and Capitol Hill Republicans.
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By Dr Jagadish Shukla
We were a few hundred feet above the Bay of Bengal when the windshield cracked. From my window, I looked out at the black water below, roiling with foamy whitecaps. Gunmetal clouds obscured any trace of a horizon, and bullets of rain pelted the thin plexiglass that separated us from the storm. We had been aboard this Electra turboprop plane—a “hurricane hunter,” as it was known in the business—every day for a week, flying directly into the most severe monsoon storms we could track down, but this was the first moment I had felt fear.
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From Nicole Kelner, who is “trying to be the Leslie Knope of climate,” comes this Substack blog with climate-themed creative recommendations, coloring books and reflections.
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Atmos puts out a print magazine, as well as digital content and a newsletter, with stories exploring fast fashion, green music festivals, environmental art, tarot readings for climate anxiety, and how the fossil-fuel industry is funding anti-trans organizations.
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By Emily Atkin
In theory, I should be a fan of The Free Press, the outlet founded by Bari Weiss.
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By David Houle
Most of the “art” I see created with AI leaves me cold. The primary reason for this is that we are at the earliest stages of learning how Technological Intelligence [TI] can be used to create unique art. Non-creatives are creating “art” because then can, because they want to use AI/TI, and because they want to appear somewhat cutting edge. Tell these same people that the hip, new, must try new medium is oil paints and you will get fewer takers.
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A science blog run by the California Academy of Sciences
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Produces critically-acclaimed informative content on climate science, climate policy, and energy policy, including “Debriefed,” a weekly climate newsletter.
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A blog from Yale’s School of the Environment, YPCCC provides resources on communicating climate change effectively.
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Focuses on helping brands take climate action.
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By Emily Atkin
I’ve had my head down in a few long-term stories this week, but every time I come up for air, the internet is talking about Olivia Nuzzi, the former political reporter and newly-minted “West Coast editor” of Vanity Fair who had an “emotional affair” with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while she was covering his presidential campaign.
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Covers international climate policy and negotiations.
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With over half a million subscribers on YouTube, Climate Town produces comedy videos about climate change, and also writes a Substack newsletter with stories and research from the episodes.
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As negotiations continue into the early hours of today, it’s clear that we’re still a long way from reaching a final agreement on key issues, particularly the new collective quantified goal on climate finance. However, progress was made today with the latest draft text on the matter, which is now ten pages shorter than previous versions. Despite this, finance negotiators are facing another long night of discussions, with their meeting room booked until 7:00 AM.
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By David Houle
The UN has always been well-intentioned with sounding the alarm on the climate crisis. One leader to another has been consistent that this crisis needs a fully committed group of polluting nations to stop. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened.
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A Substack newsletter by Michael Thomas with deeply researched stories on the politics of climate change
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A blog on Medium featuring writing by Stanford’s Environmental Justice Working Group.
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By Bill McKibben
Last night’s elections were a tonic. Many of us across the country worked awfully hard in the months leading up to them (I got to lead phonebanks on Prop 50 in California and the Public Service Commission election in Georgia, and Third Actors were engaged absolutely everywhere) but I was so used to the feeling of dread that comes at 7 pm on election night that I could hardly eat dinner. And then—Americans showed that the idea of this country is not dead just yet. We elected Muslims to historic office in the two states targeted on 9/11, we elected climate-conscious candidates to help run Georgia’s massive energy system—but more than that we began the repudiation of Trump and Trumpism. There is so so much more work to do, but as war leader Winston Churchill said after an early triumph in North Africa, “we have reached the end of the beginning.” As AOC—for my money perhaps the best political analyst in the country—put it, Americans understood “the assignment of fighting fascism right now. And the assignment is to come together across difference no matter what.”
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By Bill McKibben
Longtime readers of this newsletter will know that, though it’s generally focused on climate and energy, it also concerns itself with organizing: we have to fight for the future we want. This weekend is one of those occasions: No Kings Day 2, when millions upon millions of Americans will gather to say, on one form or another, we don’t like the turn our country has taken in the last nine months, and we’d like our country to head in a very different direction. If you don’t know where to go on Saturday, here’s the handy tool to help you find the rally near you. (Many thanks to my colleagues at Third Act who have worked hard to turn folks out; my guess is that older Americans will be over-represented, as at past such gatherings!)
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Heatmap is a digital news platform whose mission is to tell the inside story of the race to fix the planet.
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By Bill McKibben
But the despairing question I get asked most often is: “What’s the use? However much clean energy we produce, AI data centers will simply soak it all up.” It’s too early in the course of this technology to know anything for sure, but there are a few important answers to that.
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By Harry Mok
When environmental scientist Michael Mann reconnected with colleague Benjamin Horton on a recent trip to Hong Kong, they lamented the state of climate research in the U.S.
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The Impact Fund’s Social Justice blog on environmental justice litigation.
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An Indigenous-led blog imagining climate justice outside of colonial solutions and economic industries.
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Launched following the Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation Gathering in 2018 in Quebec, this blog is an online community of Indigenous climate change leaders, communities and organizations.
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Investigative reporting on climate change and the environment.
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An environmental studies blog from PLOS, an open-access science publisher.
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By Saul Griffith
Climate week in NYC felt like it was more about AI and hyperscalers than it felt like it was about saving the earth’s climate. I was hoping it would be more about how to keep this magical little planet full of life spinning at a temperature safe for all of it’s extraordinary creatures (including us humans).
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By Bill McKibben
When I started this free newsletter—several hundred posts ago—one of the commitments I made to myself was that I wouldn’t use it for self-promotion. I’m happy to plug projects I volunteer on (SunDay, for instance), but I’ve zealously stayed away from even linking to my own stories or books—I come from a distant age when ‘branding’ was frowned on, and for me the joy of this project is the chance to push forward the wonderful work others are doing. (The expansion of climate journalism is a constant joy to me, because for many years back in the ‘80s, ‘90s and ‘00s I often felt alone in this work). Several hundred posts in, I’m grateful to have this small spotlight to shine on others.
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Explores sustainable fashion and design.
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By David Houle
I have never understood people who willingly choose being stupid or ignorance as an okay place to be. That is the problem I am now having about the climate crisis.
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Your weekly dose of climate optimism.
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A former news outlet focused on climate change coverage.
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A wildlife focused blog with sections dedicated to wildlife facts, conservation, garden habitats, students and nature, and environmental justice.
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Offers information on green living, sustainable design, and climate change.
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Trellis, formerly GreenBiz: Focuses on the intersection of business and environmental issues, including climate change solutions and sustainability.
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Environmental Law Institute’s environmental justice focused blog.
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The summer of 2025 has been a season of climate-driven catastrophes: wildfires in Turkey, flooding in China and the U.S., and fatally high heat across Europe. This series of events points to the increasing ferocity of extreme weather—the storms, droughts, floods, fires, and heat waves that, as global warming accelerates, have become more severe and more unpredictable. (Today, scientists speak not only of storms but also “mega rains,” not only of dry spells but also “flash droughts.”) This week, the New Yorker writers Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and Rivka Galchen recommend three books, each one focussed on a different aspect of our rapidly changing climate.
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B the Change exists to inform and inspire people who have a passion for using business as a force for good in the world. Because we believe that storytelling is an essential element in the transformation of business and society, we commit ourselves to telling the most compelling stories possible to the largest audiences possible to propel the movement of business toward its destiny as a powerful force for good. We want to dramatically broaden and deepen engagement with entrepreneurs, managers, employees, investors and citizens in one of the most important discussions of our time. B the Change is a collaboration of B Lab, the community of Certified B Corps, and the movement of people using business as a force for good.
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Carbon Tracker is an independent financial think tank which provides in-depth analysis on the impact of climate change on capital markets and investment in fossil fuels, mapping risk, opportunity and the route to a low carbon future. Carbon Tracker is a team of financial, energy and legal experts with a ground-breaking approach to limiting future greenhouse gas emissions.
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Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system.
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The Climate Impact Lab is a unique collaboration of 30 climate scientists, economists, computational experts, researchers, analysts, and students from some of the nation’s leading research institutions.
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Founded by David Houle and Tim Rumage, their mission is to get at least 1 billion people to start “acting as a crew” and stop being “unaware passengers.”
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Our scientists and engineers develop and implement innovative, practical solutions to some of our planet’s most pressing problems—from combating global warming and developing sustainable ways to feed, power, and transport ourselves, to fighting misinformation,
advancing racial equity, and reducing the threat of nuclear war.
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Waste Dive provides original analysis on the latest happenings in the waste industry and also posts industry events, jobs, and more.
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Renewable energy projects you can build. Keep up-to-date on what's new on Build-It-Solar, and discuss renewable energy topics.
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists bridges the technology divide between research, foreign policy, and public engagement. Their award-winning Doomsday Clock also has fascinating information.
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Carbon Brief is UK-based and covers the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy.
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CTC's blog addresses carbon tax and climate related issues. Their mission is to generate support to enact a transparent and equitable U.S. carbon pollution tax, as quickly as possible.
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CleanTechnica is the #1 cleantech news, reviews, & analysis site in the world.
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Environmental Defense Fund's blog provides expert-to-expert commentary on the science, law and economics of climate change and clean air.
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They are an independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting on climate science, energy, sea level rise, wildfires, drought, and related topics.
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Peter Sinclair uses climate science to debunk climate misinformation disseminated to the public. He has been dubbed "the sharpest denial debunker on Youtube" and Climate Denial Crocks runs in conjunction with his video series of the same name.
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The Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) is an international consortium of business and environmental NGOs committed to advancing and aligning the global mainstream corporate reporting model.
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Climate Nexus is a strategic communications organization dedicated to changing the conversation on climate and clean energy in the US. Articles focus on the basics, extreme weather, regional impacts, sciences primers, societal impacts and suggested solutions & policy.
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The CPI Policy Blog provides expertise on the most important energy and land use policies around the world, with a particular focus on finance.
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DeSmog became a leading source for accurate, fact based information regarding global warming misinformation campaigns. Articles and stories are routinely highlighted in the world’s most popular news outlets and blogs, and DeSmog was voted Canada’s “Best Group Blog."
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E2 advocates for policies that protect the environment while building economic prosperity.
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EcoCult blogs about sustainable fashion, travel, and more.
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EcoWatch provides original content from a team of reporters and features insights from prominent environmental and business leaders.
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The Energy News Network is a nonprofit dedicated to keeping stakeholders, policymakers, and citizens informed of the important changes taking place in the transition to a clean energy system.
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EnerKnol is an energy policy data and analytics company, and their blog focuses on the energy industry, environmental commodities, renewables, and beyond.
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Global Environmental Scientist. Author. Speaker. Executive Director, Project Drawdown.
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The Good Edit blog covers news and related information about ethical and sustainable fashion.
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The Green Economy Post is a blog portal that provides site visitors with green business and career information, industry news and timely commentary.
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Greentech Media delivers market analysis, business-to-business news and conferences that inform and connect players in the global clean energy market. Coverage extends across the clean energy industry with a focus on solar power and the electric utility market's evolution.
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GreenBiz provides intelligent, focused content on business, technology and sustainability for people from every industry and discipline.
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High Country News covers the important issues and stories that define the American West.
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InsideClimate News is an independent, not-for-profit, non-partisan news organization that covers clean energy, carbon energy, nuclear energy and environmental science—plus the territory in between where law, policy and public opinion are shaped.
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Beth Terry's blog provides tips on removing plastic from your life and offers information on the dangers of plastic overuse to human and environmental health.
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Provides approachable information and resources on climate change science, its effects, and current efforts to intervene.
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Nature Research publishes primary research, reviews, critical comment, news and analysis.
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NewClimate Institute supports research and implementation of action against climate change around the globe. Their blog addresses sustainable development through research, policy design and knowledge sharing.
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Find news, guides and tips for making and saving money in energy and fuel, investment information, or get involved in a brainstorming session with other readers.
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Nori is a start-up using blockchain technology. Their blog discusses carbon removal, blockchain and more.
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Energy headlines, resources, and expert dialogue.
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RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is mostly restricted to scientific topics and will only rarely get involved in any political or economic implications of the science.
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Resist & Replace (R&R) is a grassroots group of activists based in East Hampton (NY) which started in Dec 2016. The blog features writing by
Mary Foster Morgan.
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Timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
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Award-winning journalism that reveals government fraud and waste of taxpayer funds, human rights violations, environmental degradation and threats to public safety.
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John Englander is an oceanographer, consultant and leading expert on sea level rise.
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News from the Earth Institute. Comprehensive coverage of climate, agriculture, ecology, energy, health, sustainability, water, and more.
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The goal of The Cleanest Line is to encourage dialogue about environmental issue, products, and sports. Blog categories include: activism, food, public lands, and surfing, to name a few.
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The Daily Climate is a nonprofit publication focused on policy and environmental health issues.
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The Nature Conservancy's magazine combines reporting with world-class photography, covering their work to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.
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Undark focuses on the intersection of science and society and aims to explore science in both light and shadow, and to bring that exploration to a broad, international audience.
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Windpower Monthly is the leading news magazine of the international wind energy business. Focused on business, policy and economics, Windpower Monthly's articles from around the world overview of the essential political, industrial, environmental and technical developments in the global wind energy arena.
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Yale's climate communication blog features climate change-related research and news, in addition to job openings.
