This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Stopping carbon pollution alone will not bring climate justice. Reaching net-zero by 2050 will not either. Neither will achieving 100 percent renewable energy targets. The entire economy is being rebuilt.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Record-setting wildfires torched huge swaths of western states in 2020. They blotted out the sun, produced hazardous air pollution in cities far from the blazes, and sent toxic smoke wafting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United States helped bring the world into the Paris climate accord, the groundbreaking global agreement reached in 2015 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to slow climate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cheaper Solar Power Means Low-Income Families Can Also Benefit Until recently, rooftop solar panels were a clean energy technology that only wealthy Americans could afford. But prices have dropped, thanks…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amongst the many dramatic challenges global businesses faced in 2020, one that had been simmering for years bubbled up and promised to stay at a high boil in 2021 is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At a virtual fundraiser last July, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden said, “I want young climate activists, young people everywhere, to know: I see you. I hear you. I understand the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Lead author Rebecca Runting from the University of Melbourne’s School of Geography says that while we currently have an unprecedented ability to generate, store, access, and analyze data about the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a year plagued by a deadly pandemic, people were more worried about climate change than contracting the virus that has killed almost 2 million people, a global study by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate disasters started early in 2020—and kept on coming. The catastrophic fires in Australia in early 2020 were a holdover from 2019, but they were soon followed by flooding in Indonesia, a super cyclone…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s hard to imagine navigating modern life without a mobile phone in hand. Computers, tablets and smartphones have transformed how we communicate, work, learn, share news and entertain ourselves. They…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “More and more people will suffer from extreme droughts if a medium-to-high level of global warming continues and water management is maintained at its present state,” says lead author Yadu Pokhrel, associate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The effects of the changing climate are already being felt, and by 2050, between 600 million and one billion people could be impacted by lethal heat waves. According to recent McKinsey…