This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Back in January, Biden signed an executive order that tasked a working group with determining a social cost of carbon (SCC) — a measure, in dollars, of how much economic damage results…
What will a just transition look like in practice? And how can you organization help make it happen? The Just Transition Alliance, I think, does a fantastic job of really…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Plans for removing carbon from the atmosphere, if they proved workable, could exact a lethal price from those least able to afford it: starvation for the world’s poorest people. Anti-poverty…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Both human and swine waste contaminated surface waters with fecal bacteria in the wake of 2018’s Hurricane Florence, according to a new study. “We found that surface waters in eastern…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The perfect storm erupted on Doug Rainforth’s birthday. Droughts in years prior had dried out the soil in Fairmont, Minnesota, where Rainforth manages the city’s water treatment plant. Rainforth suspects the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Experts say that since there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to achieve effective zero deforestation commitment (ZDC) mapping and monitoring, they have created an attribute framework to guide the development of effective…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Scientists have known for decades that climate change makes wildfires more common, larger, and more intense. Now an international team of scientists has demonstrated a new connection between fires and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This year has provided a grim preview of what climate scientists say the world is becoming. Suffocating heat in the Pacific Northwest killed 200 people. Torrential rains and flooding across…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Record downpours from Hurricane Ida overwhelmed cities across the Northeast on Sept. 1, 2021, hitting some with more than 3 inches of rain an hour. Water poured into subway stations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to transition to 100% clean energy by 2035, in line with President Biden’s national goals and a decade earlier than the city originally planned. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 72 hours after Hurricane Ida made landfall, plumes of dark black smoke were still rising from four towers at the Shell plant in Norco, Louisiana. Enormous flames billowed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new study catalogs how environmental policies on deforestation, along with forest fires and drought, have affected plant and animal diversity in the Amazon rainforest. For the study in Nature, researchers…