This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken draws attention to climate change in the Arctic at meetings with other national officials this week in Iceland, an even greater threat looms…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a sign that food security and nutrition are increasingly seen as key vectors for sustainable development, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) approved a resolution likely to enrich and intensify…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. About 43% of global cities lack a plan for adapting to climate change issues, yet 93% say their people and infrastructure are at risk from climate change, according to a report from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Would you drink carbonated beverages made with carbon dioxide captured from the smokestack of a factory or power plant? How would you feel if that captured carbon dioxide were in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just about every indicator of drought is flashing red across the western U.S. after a dry winter and warm early spring. The snowpack is at less than half of normal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita swept through Louisiana in 2005, cities like Houston, Dallas, and Baton Rouge took in hundreds of thousands of displaced residents—many of whom eventually stayed in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the drought outlook for the Western U.S. becomes increasingly bleak, attention is turning once again to groundwater – literally, water stored in the ground. It is Earth’s most widespread…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Anyone who listens to weather reports has heard meteorologists comment that yesterday’s temperature was 3 degrees above normal, or last month was much drier than normal. But what does “normal”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you live in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida, you might be curious about which areas this super-computer-powered map says are at risk of being underwater. By the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Bidtah Becker, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, was growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, clean water flowed from the taps at her house. She and her siblings often…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new study suggests that if the world doesn’t make major cuts in emissions, there’s a chance that so much ice could melt that sea levels could rise more than two meters…
RAND senior policy researcher Ben Preston presents several climate change successes from recent years, including reduced costs to deploy renewable energy, commitment at international, national, state, and local levels to reduce emissions,…