There Is No PLANet B: Dispatch from the People’s Climate March
The People’s Climate March, designed as an invitation to “change everything,” was the largest climate march in human history.
View ArticleUS Climate Change Envoy: The Clock is Ticking
The address by Stern, who has been the lead negotiator for the US at global climate talks since 2009, comes at a crucial time for climate negotiations.
View ArticleThe Eagle and the Dragon Join Hands on Climate Change
Breaking down the U.S/China climate deal.
View ArticleA Climate Guy
Why are we so reluctant to express outrage over climate change in our daily lives?
View ArticlePresident Obama’s Climate Appeasement
The president's simultaneous decisions on the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge and drilling off the Atlantic coast reveal that he is putting politics over science.
View ArticleAutocracy in the Atolls
Given the pervasive threat of rising sea levels, the assault on democracy in the Maldives is the last thing the low-lying island nation needs.
View ArticlePope Francis Makes Waves on Historic U.S. Tour
In line with American tradition, the celebrity of the papacy has set off a whirlwind of emotion and excitement within the cities he is visiting.
View ArticleFacing the Blaze: Climate Change and Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest
In the coming decades, climate change can be expected to produce more intense wildfires, like those seen this summer in the Pacific Northwest.
View Article‘Capitalism and the Climate Change Crisis’: Envisioning a New Society at Yale
According to Professor Fred Magdoff, former chair of the plant and soil science department at the University of Vermont, capitalism stifles the “cooperation, sharing, empathy, and altruism" we need to...
View ArticleFinding Refuge As the Tides Rise : The Climate Migration Crisis
In May of 2014, Ioane Teitiota, a 38 year old man from the small island nation of Kiribati, made the world’s first climate changerelated refugee appeal. Overnight, Kiribati became the face o of...
View ArticleRepublicans Challenge Obama on Climate Change Ahead of UN Conference
With the GOP opposing Obama's Clean Power Plan and questioning his authority to negotiate a long-term climate agreement, the president faces an uphill battle.
View ArticleThanks, But No Thanks: Shirking Responsibility at COP21
In a move not wholly unexpected of the U.S., select countries received a note detailing American expectations from the Paris agreement at COP21. It didn't go over well.
View ArticleClinton and the Carbon Tax
The Democratic Party Platform endorsed a carbon tax, but Hillary Clinton did not. Alexander Posner tells us why.
View ArticleThe Rising Tide
Scientists now agree that recent flooding events in Louisiana are due to global warming.
View ArticleThe Holocaust as Climate Change Warning
“The problem with our focus on the rescuers and rescued is that by the time those terms become relevant, the Holocaust already happened.”
View ArticleAn Interview with Christiana Figueres, the UN’s Negotiator on the Paris...
"The consequence of going above 2 degrees, from an insurance industry perspective, as the insurance industry has already been pretty clear, is that we would be moving into a world that is systemically...
View ArticleGoing Rogue on Climate Change: States Respond to Trump’s Policy Changes
After President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Accords, some states took preventing climate change into their own hands.
View ArticleMaking the Planet Great Again: France’s Lofty Environmental Goals
“The United States turned its back on the world, but France will not turn its back on the Americans.”
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