This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What’s essential to ocean funding when it’s geared toward saving a species on the brink of extinction? For the Marisla Foundation, a private foundation whose environmental giving focuses largely on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you live in Texas or Louisiana, your community will be harder hit by climate change than cities in New Hampshire or Oregon. By the end of the century, if…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the key concerns about climate change is ecosystem resilience. This is particularly true for those that are anchored over large locations with little ability to move. Ecological communities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The environmental and health benefits of phasing out some of the oldest, most polluting coal plants alone would justify the Clean Energy Development Plan. Compared to a business-as-usual future (95…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The New York State Comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, is helping direct stockholders’ resolutions to fight climate change using tools built by a nonprofit organization. Ceres, a sustainability nonprofit organization with revenue…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), CO2-induced global warming will result in a considerable reduction in sea ice extent in the Southern…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the contentious interface of climate science and policy, there’s one thing that people of all flavors agree upon: if Greenland were to shed all its ice in a century…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world’s tropical forests are living exemplars of the tragedy of the commons, where the needs of the world clash with those of individuals. The trees in those forests lock…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A glossy booklet with an intriguing title recently turned up in Patrick Engleman’s mailbox. “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming,” it proclaimed. A cover letter packaged with the book told…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the mid-’90s, when he was 10 years old, Mark Lopez walked around his home of East Los Angeles, knocking on doors to tell people about the dangers of lead…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 1835, the Galapagos Islands shaped the thoughts of a young British naturalist named Charles Darwin, and helped inspire his world-shaking theory of evolution. For that reason, the islands have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In June, President Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is a wise decision. Compliance would impose significant costs on…