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climate change
Why Ro Khanna Wants to Talk About Gas Prices
By Justin Worland
U.S. Plastic Recycling Rates Are Even Worse Than We Thought
By Emily Barone
Climate Could Change the Course of Australia's Election
By AMY GUNIA / LAUNCESTON, AUSTRALIA
Western Architecture is Making India's Heatwaves Worse
By Ciara Nugent
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Americans Don't Trust One of the Best Methods to Control Wildfires
When burns get out of control, it can erode public trust, even as wildfires get worse with climate change
By Emily Barone
May 12, 2022
California Climate Plan Calls for All-Electric New Homes to Hit Carbon-Neutral Goal
The proposal also calls for the state cut the use of oil and gas by 91% by 2045
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE / AP
May 11, 2022
Climate Change Will Make Droughts Longer, More Common, Says UN
“We need to steer towards the solutions rather than continuing with destructive actions"
By WANJOHI KABUKURU / AP
May 11, 2022
This Is How We Quit Big Oil
At the end of the first quarter of 2021, as the CEOs of the three biggest U.S. oil and gas companies presented their firms’ earnings, investors fired off a range of questions about how they...
By Justin Worland
May 11, 2022
Oil Companies Posted Huge Profits. Here’s Where The Cash Will Go (Hint: Not Climate)
As consumers grapple with high fuel prices and politicians scramble to knock them down, oil companies are not making any sudden moves. That’s because, after years of low fuel prices, they are now enjoying a...
By Emily Barone
May 11, 2022
How the Melting Arctic Will Both Hurt and Help Alaskans
The Arctic is warming, and for Indigenous communities the consequences could be devastating.
By Aryn Baker/Nome, Alaska
May 11, 2022
After Visiting Both Ends of the Earth, I Realized How Much Trouble We’re In
These remote places have more impact on our lives than almost anything closer to home.
By Aryn Baker
May 11, 2022
Earth has a 50% Chance of Hitting Key 1.5°C Warming Threshold in the Next 5 Years
“We’re going to see continued warming in line with what is expected with climate change"
By SETH BORENSTEIN / AP
May 10, 2022
India’s Unbearably Hot Schools Show We Must Climate-Proof Education
A heat wave has forced schools in Northern India to close again after two years of disruption by COVID-19
By Ciara Nugent
May 6, 2022
Biden to Hold Industrial Polluters Accountable for Harming Poor, Minority Communities
The new strategy includes launching an Office of Environmental Justice within the Justice Department to focus on “fenceline communities"
By MATTHEW DALY / AP
May 5, 2022
Giant Rodents 'Invaded' a Wealthy Gated Community. What Happened Next is a Lesson for Cities in the Climate Change Era
Gated communities are known for their manicured lawns, swimming pools, and wealthy residents. In Argentina, they’re also known as the home of the world’s largest rodents. On a drizzly afternoon in March 2022, a family...
By Ciara Nugent/Buenos Aires
May 5, 2022
Big Oil Sold the World on a Plastics Recycling Myth. It May Be Too Late to Undo the Damage
Oil companies convinced the world that plastic recycling would work. Now it may be too late to undo the damage
By Alejandro de la Garza
May 5, 2022
India Braced for More Power Outages Amid Blistering Heatwave
A power crisis in India that’s delivering hours-long blackouts, halting manufacturing and triggering protests is set to continue for months
By Rajesh Kumar Singh / Bloomberg
May 5, 2022
If You Want to Know a Country's Economic Future, Check How Far It Is From the Equator
It’s no secret that global climate change hurts the economy. With more frequent and more severe storms, flooding, drought, and fires, countries around the world are already taking economic hits. And as long-term events like...
By Emily Barone
May 4, 2022
High Gas Prices Are Pushing Electric Car Sales to a Tipping Point
When Eric Dirksen received his first electric car in December—a new Tesla Model Y—he didn’t know gas prices would spike a few months after. But with fuel costing about $4.20 per gallon on average this...
By Nik Popli
May 3, 2022
One Island's Controversial Plan To Embrace Climate Justice
Palau has already set aside 80% of its waters, while the rest of the world is aiming to protect only 30%
By AMY GUNIA / KOROR, PALAU
May 2, 2022
Food Supply Will Take a Double Hit From War and Climate Change
"If we continue on this trajectory, to 1.5°C or even 2°C, all hell will break loose"
By Aryn Baker
April 29, 2022
California Sunshine Could be Key to Combating Drought
Meet the engineer calling for solar panels to be installed over canals to save billions of gallons of water a year
By Ciara Nugent
April 28, 2022
The World’s Steel Comes at a Steep Climate Cost. A Swedish Company is Trying to Change That.
“If we have the chance to really solve the root cause of the real problem, why not do that?”
By Alejandro de la Garza
April 28, 2022
Imagine if Hollywood Actually Made Realistic Climate Stories
“No matter what genre you’re working in, we’re still living in a world where climate is happening”
By Ciara Nugent
April 27, 2022
Warmer Winters Are Erasing Alaskan Native Traditions in the Arctic
To Laureli Ivanoff, climate change is far from an abstract idea. As an Iñupiat writer living in the remote Alaskan town of Unalakleet, she’s seen firsthand the warming planet’s tangible impact on her culture’s food...
By Aryn Baker and Video By Joey Lautrup
April 26, 2022
Expect More Disasters, U.N. Warns, as Climate Change Worsens Everything From Droughts to Economic Meltdowns
U.N. report predicts the number of extreme heat waves in 2030 will be three times what it was in 2001 and there will be 30% more droughts
By SETH BORENSTEIN / AP
April 26, 2022
Climate Change Became Politicized in the 1990s. It Didn't Have To Be That Way.
Here’s the situation as it now stands: Even with the Paris Accords on climate change, temperatures are expected to rise by between 2.7 degrees Celsius to 3.7 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100. To...
By Eugene Linden
April 22, 2022
As Putin Threatens Nuclear Disaster, Europe Learns to Embrace Nuclear Energy
In early March, the world looked on in horror as a fire broke out at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southeast Ukraine. The blaze at the Zaporizhzhia facility following shelling by invading Russian forces...
By Charlie Campbell
April 21, 2022
What 3,000 Financial Documents Say About Climate Change
Over the past decade, the way that publicly traded companies have spoken publicly about climate change has unmistakably changed. Now, it’s become standard for many companies to, at the very least, pay lip service to...
By Emily Barone and Chris Wilson
April 19, 2022
John Kerry Says the Ocean Is Finally Getting the Attention It Deserves in the Climate Change Fight
John Kerry is a lifelong ocean lover and a long-time advocate for their protection. It’s this passion which led the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate to start the Our Ocean conference in 2014 during...
By AMY GUNIA / KOROR, PALAU
April 18, 2022
The Problem With Corporate Net-Zero Emissions Goals
Only a relative few companies have set net-zero targets, and even fewer expect to fully stop emitting greenhouse gases. For the majority, the plan is to eliminate their carbon footprint by 2050 through offsets—a reduction...
By Kyla Mandel
April 14, 2022
Planet Earth’s Future Now Rests in the Hands of Big Business
Government officials around the world are increasingly looking at the private sector as partners in the climate fight.
By Justin Worland
April 14, 2022
Ecopreneurs Are Critical to the Planet's Future
For more than a quarter of a century, amid growing signs of the ravages of global warming, the U.N. has brought together representatives from almost every country on the planet to work together on solutions....
By Edward Felsenthal
April 14, 2022
Tribal Communities Use Corporate Investment to Scale Up Solar Power
Private capital is essential to allowing tribes to tap into their renewable resources in a serious way
By Kalen Goodluck
April 13, 2022
This Mining Executive Is Fighting to Protect the Environment
Renee Grogan wants to set a new standard for responsible battery mining
By Aryn Baker
April 13, 2022
Oil Climate Disclosures Riddled With ‘Questionable Claims,’ Study Finds
Facing mounting pressure to divest from fossil fuels, investors want reliable emissions disclosures from the industry
By PAUL TAKAHASHI / BLOOMBERG
April 12, 2022
The Bitcoin Mining Showdown In New York’s Wine Country
When I reach Rick Rainey on the phone, he’s barreling down a highway in his Subaru with samples of Riesling in tow. “I’m out here spreading the Finger Lakes love,” he tells me—which means, he’s...
By Lindsay Muscato
April 7, 2022
We Have Enough Climate Tech. What We Need is Political Will
As IPCC climate scientists make clear, politicians must help scale up existing technologies to avert catastrophic climate change
By Alejandro de la Garza
April 7, 2022
Climeworks Raises $650 Million to Scale Up Carbon Capture Technology
Most scenarios that keep global warming within 1.5°C will require removing some carbon that’s already been dumped into the atmosphere
By AKSHAT RATHI / BLOOMBERG
April 5, 2022
Vegan Documentarian Tells the Inside Story of Lab-Grown Meat
Liz Marshall’s Meat the Future charts the birth of a new technological innovation that grows meat from stem cells instead of animals
By Aryn Baker
April 5, 2022
The New IPCC Report Was Delayed As Scientists Debated Reliance On Carbon Capture
The U.N. climate body admits the 1.5°C target set under the Paris Agreement now looks unlikely
By Ciara Nugent
April 4, 2022
This Tech Leader is Harnessing Collective Action to Green the Grid
Open-source software could make a big difference for decarbonization
By Alejandro de la Garza
March 30, 2022
Matt Damon Wants You to Care About Water
For Matt Damon and Gary White, solving the world's water crisis has been a decades-long quest
By Alejandro de la Garza
March 29, 2022
Ellie Goulding Sounds Alarm on Climate at TIME100 Impact Awards
"There is still a small window of possibility, but we must act now," she said. "It is by taking action that I maintain hope."
By Raisa Bruner/Dubai
March 28, 2022
Gas Prices Don't Reflect Their Environmental Cost
The true cost of driving includes not just the price of filling up but also the costs that it imposes on society, including pollution
By Justin Worland
March 24, 2022
Why the SEC’s New Climate Rules Could Divide Corporate America
The fight over the SEC's climate rules illustrates an emerging fault line: some companies are changing and others hanging on to old ways
By Justin Worland
March 22, 2022
Astronomy's Environmental Toll Is Surprisingly High. But There Are Ways to Clean It Up
Sky gazing does not come for free
By Jeffrey Kluger
March 21, 2022
IEA Urges People to Drive Less in 10-Step Fuel-Saving Plan Amid Russia Crisis
The International Energy Agency has released a 10-step fuel-saving plan to ease looming oil supply strains
By GRANT SMITH / BLOOMBERG
March 18, 2022
The Sunrise Movement Rethinks Approach to Creating Change
The doctor couldn’t understand why Kidus Girma wouldn’t just eat the sandwich. It was October 2021, and Girma, 26, was starving. He hadn’t eaten anything solid in four days. His vision was blurred, his heart...
By Molly Ball
March 17, 2022
Heat Pumps Are a Weapon in the E.U.’s Face-Off With Russia
The high efficiency heating systems have suddenly become crucial to the E.U. cutting its dependence on Russian gas
By Alejandro de la Garza
March 16, 2022
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