This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The study, published in Nature Sustainability, highlights the global inequality in emissions between people in rich and poor countries. For example, it finds that the average carbon footprint of a person…
Extreme heat is already the deadliest climate and weather-related hazard in the United States and cities are getting hotter because of climate change and the urban heat island effect. Communities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Discussions of the growing plastic waste problem often focus on reducing the volume of single-use plastic packaging items such as bags, bottles, tubs, and films. But more waste comes from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the past year, photojournalist Nichole Sobecki and I have been on a mission to understand how climate change and environmental degradation drive conflict in Somalia. It’s a place where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This summer has seen more fires, more heat, more storms — all of it making life increasingly untenable in larger areas of the nation. Already, droughts regularly threaten food crops…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you haven’t seen the projections, you’ve probably still absorbed the gist of them: At some point in the not-too-distant future an astronomical number of people will likely be displaced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the past few years, wildfires have broken out around the world at a scale rarely experienced by modern humans. In 2020, fires in the western U.S. charred more than 10…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mounting evidence suggests the western United States is now in its worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years. Groundwater supplies are being overpumped in many places, and the dryness, wildfires…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Record floods. Raging storms. Deadly heat. Here are the basics on what causes climate change, how it’s affecting the planet, and what we can do about it. What is climate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate experts and engineers have created a new model to predict the damage caused by adverse weather. This new framework for ‘consequence forecasting’ enables first responders to effectively target resources…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The concept of climate justice is fairly simple to understand, but much more difficult to act on: Those who have done least to cause climate change are the ones suffering…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Extreme heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in the United States—a fact that historically has gone underrecognized. Experts consider heat a silent killer, resulting in more than 600 deaths per year as well as illnesses like…