This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. June’s record-breaking heat wave left more than 40 million Americans sweltering in temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Some places reached 120 F, and energy grids were struggling to keep people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When heat waves hit, people start looking for anything that might lower the temperature. One solution is right beneath our feet: pavement. Think about how hot the soles of your…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Without warning, on the most bitter winter days, or the hottest of summer, smokestacks that sit idle much of the year switch online, spewing trails of climate-altering, coronavirus-exacerbating pollutants across the sky,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mounting livestock numbers could put the world’s grasslands on track to become an anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions source, according to a Nature Communications paper by international researchers. Grasslands, the planet’s most prevalent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Weather-related events in 2020 displaced residents more than 1.7 million times in the United States—almost double the number from 2019—as reported today by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Hundreds of thousands of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The exceptional drought in the U.S. West has people across the region on edge after the record-setting fires of 2020. Last year, Colorado alone saw its three largest fires in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Lumber prices are up more than 500 percent in some areas, and people are even poaching trees from public forests for home projects, but this late-pandemic surge in lumber demand is a short-term threat…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Raising huge new sums of “nature” finance to better protect the planet’s ailing biodiversity will have no significant impact unless the underlying economic rules now driving environmental losses are shifted,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. These are contradictory times: While global human-development metrics for life expectancy, literacy, and economic development are improving, metrics for carbon-dioxide emissions, global temperature indices, biodiversity, and ocean acidification—essentially any metric…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Indigenous peoples from around the world on Wednesday urged Harvard University to abandon a project to test ways to dim sunlight as a fix for global warming, saying it posed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It was one month after Hurricane Iota destroyed his family’s home that 31-year-old Jexis decided to leave his hometown of Choloma, Honduras. The storm arrived after months of joblessness he…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last year, the oceans were warmer than any time since measurements began over 60 years ago, according to a study published Monday in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. While global…