American climate policy can be salvaged, but environmentalists say action has to be swift and sweeping.
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A Reset for Unprecedented Times
January 4, 2021Buen Vivir is both a philosophy and a lived practice that puts Earth at the center of “the Good Life.”
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Opinion | Vanessa Nakate: America Needs to Lead on Climate Change
November 9, 2020The 23-year-old Ugandan climate activist explains what the U.S. election will mean for the future of the planet.
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Excerpt | Paying Attention to Nature—Urgently
August 3, 2020There’s the octopus in the parking garage, and 26,500 other signs that climate change is here.
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The coronavirus pandemic has revealed one particularly shocking thing about our societies and economies: they have been operating on a very thin margin.
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2018 was the fourth hottest year on record
February 8, 2019NASA and NOAA data show that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record, while the hottest is 2016. Global surface temperature records go back nearly 140 years. During that…
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Carolyn Kormann on a new report from the I.P.C.C., which states that global climate change will have catastrophic consequences once the planet surpasses 1.5 degrees of warming, which could happen…
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Greenland’s Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Expected.
September 27, 2018When NASA scientists realized that Greenland’s glaciers had begun melting much faster than expected, they were puzzled — and alarmed.
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Too Hot for Work?
September 27, 2018Climate change is already worsening working conditions across the country.
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What Can I Do About Climate Change?
August 30, 2018People ask me all the time: ‘what can I do to fight climate change?’ And it’s a great question, because the problem seems so big, and we seem so small, that it’s…