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How 10 Years of Pope Francis Has Changed Climate Action
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How India Became the Most Important Country in the Climate Fight
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Americans waste nearly three times more food on Thanksgiving than on a typical day. Here's how to deal with leftovers.
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Here are the Takeaways From COP27
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By Akshat Rathi and Laura Millan Lombrana / Bloomberg
November 20, 2022
Conflicting Christian Beliefs About Climate
A new poll shows U.S. Christians believe humans must protect the Earth, but often don't believe climate change science.
By Emily Barone
November 18, 2022
States Risk Climate Rollbacks This Election
Three dozen races for governor and competitive races to control state legislatures will shape just how far the U.S. can go on climate.
By Emily Barone and Justin Worland
November 4, 2022
The World Cup Brings Attention to Extreme Heat in Qatar
Preparation for the World Cup has brought global attention to the deadly perils of working in extreme temperatures.
By Aryn Baker/Doha & Kathmandu
November 3, 2022
Global Warming Goals Are Almost Out of Reach
A UN report shows our slim chances of preventing catastrophic global warming.
By Emily Barone
October 27, 2022
Russia's War in Ukraine Puts Antarctica's Wildlife at Risk
As the international community strives to protect Antarctica's biodiversity, Russia-Ukraine geopolitics gets in the way.
By Aryn Baker
October 27, 2022
The Story Behind TIME’s New Optical Illusion Climate Change Cover
"It is my hope that viewers take away from this some idea of how much their own perception of the world contributes to making it"
By D.W. Pine
October 27, 2022
The Selfish Case for Climate Justice
It may take hearing about the threats to our own self-interest that makes leaders in wealthy countries pay up.
By Justin Worland
October 27, 2022
The Climate Impact of Your Electronics Junk Drawer
We're terrible at disposing of our old, broken, and obsolete electronic products. Those waste hoarding habits are worsening climate damage.
By Emily Barone
October 21, 2022
Here's Why Alaskan Snow Crabs Are Disappearing
Alaska's snow crab collapse was likely caused by climate change, and cannibalism.
By Aryn Baker
October 19, 2022
How One Environmental Activist Is Taking on India’s Pollution Problem
When Arun Krishnamurthy was a child in the 1990s, his middle-class suburb in Chennai, India, was only half built. He didn’t have to wander far from his house to find green fields and lakes, where...
By Ciara Nugent
October 13, 2022
Climate Change Worsening Africa's Food Crisis
While exacerbating droughts and floods, climate change also fuels migration and makes food imports less reliable.
By Emily Barone
October 5, 2022
Why Atlantic Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger, Faster
The combined impact of worsening climate change and less pollution is like a performance enhancer for tropical cyclones.
By Emily Barone
September 30, 2022
The Climate Crisis Is Making the Pacific Islands Unlivable
As rising sea levels make the Pacific Islands unsustainable for living, what will become of its inhabitants?
By Kausea Natano
September 28, 2022
The 'Slow Food' Movements Wants to Stop Climate Change
Farmers gathered in Italy to lament climate change's impact on their crops, and discuss climate-safe alternatives
By Aryn Baker
September 28, 2022
Rising Seas Will Create a Huge Property Tax Headache
As properties disappear, so will the property taxes they generate. That lost revenue could impact school districts and municipal services.
By Emily Barone
September 9, 2022
How The Grid Works When Hydropower Dries Up
The U.S. is losing hydropower as reservoirs dry up, stressing an electrical grid that already buckles in extreme weather
By Emily Barone
September 2, 2022
How People Value Different Green Subsidies
The climate bill aims to help lower-income Americans electrify their homes and cars. Here's why experts say it will work
By Emily Barone
August 12, 2022
The Double Health Risk of Heat and Pollution
Research shows that the combined risk of death from extreme temperatures and air pollution is more than the sum of their individual effects
By Emily Barone
July 28, 2022
The Next Hottest Alternative Milk Comes from Microbes
The dairy industry is a big polluter. A new type of milk offers a more climate-friendly option
By Aryn Baker
July 22, 2022
Climate Experts Are Testing Ways To Reach the People Affected by Extreme Heat
When it comes to climate change, some communities are more vulnerable than others
By Emily Barone
July 19, 2022
How Climate Change Is Impacting Food Supply Chain Trends
Climate change is adding to COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war in pushing up food prices and altering supply chains
By Chad de Guzman
July 12, 2022
Fact-Checking Crypto's Climate Claims
Cryptocurrencies are bad for the environment—at least, that’s what most people online seem to believe. Pro-crypto posts on social media are often flooded with angry comments about the industry's outsized contribution to greenhouse gas emissions....
By Andrew R. Chow
July 1, 2022
What the Supreme Court's Ruling on the 'Clean Air Act' Means for Carbon Emissions
Energy emissions fell as the case moved through the courts. That may not be enough for Biden to reach his climate goals
By Emily Barone
June 30, 2022
Meet the Siblings Making Hydropower That Actually Protects Rivers and Fish
“Every hydro project is also a water project, not just an energy project”
By Amy Gunia
June 29, 2022
Summers Are Becoming Unbearably Hot Before They Even Start
"It’s never been this hot so early in the year"
By Emily Barone
June 23, 2022
Lithium Is Key to the EV Transition—And It's in Short Supply
Lithium prices are up 400%. Experts say the supply will get worse before it gets better, with implications for the electric vehicle market
By Emily Barone
May 26, 2022
Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel on Fixing the Battery Problem
Straubel started thinking about battery materials when he was building Tesla’s first major battery factory in the mid-2010s.
By Alejandro de la Garza/Reno, Nev.
May 19, 2022
U.S. Plastic Recycling Rates Are Even Worse Than We Thought
It’s well established that the state of U.S. plastics recycling is dismal. But plastic waste experts, who have long cautioned that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) purported recycling rate was overestimated, now say that the...
By Emily Barone
May 19, 2022
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
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
Exxon Plans to Zero Out Emissions from Operations by 2050
Carbon released when customers use Exxon products such as gasoline and jet fuel will be excluded from the company's emissions roadmap
By KEVIN CROWLEY AND ARI NATTER/BLOOMBERG
January 18, 2022
E.U. Risks its Climate Goals By Calling Natural Gas Green
A long-simmering debate about the future of natural gas has been forced to a head in Europe this month, as the E.U. considers classifying some projects involving the fossil fuel as sustainable investments in official...
By Ciara Nugent
January 13, 2022
Washington Can Do Better Talking to Black and Latino Voters About Climate Change
Study after study has shown the disparate impact of climate change and other environmental crises on communities of color in the United States. Whether it’s urban heat waves or hurricanes, the effects routinely hit people...
By Justin Worland
January 11, 2022
The Top Climate Innovations of 2021
After a rare pandemic-related dip in 2020, global carbon emissions bounced back with a vengeance. Climate disasters seemed relentless over the summer, from flooding in Western Europe and China to wildfires in Siberia and the...
By Alejandro de la Garza
December 28, 2021
Holiday Gifts That Actually Fight Climate Change
If you’re stuck on what to buy as Christmas gifts this year, a Swiss start-up has a suggestion: some carbon dioxide. Climeworks AG owns the world’s largest direct-air carbon capture facility, in Iceland, where dozens...
By Ciara Nugent
December 7, 2021
'Dramatic Changes' as Record Temperatures Hit Antarctica
The reported temp is almost a full degree Celsius above the previous high set five years ago
By Laura Millan Lombrana / Bloomberg
February 7, 2020
World Faces Its Warmest January Yet
The global temperature this January was the warmest on record for the month of January but that's only 0.054°F higher than temperatures in January 2016.
By Sanya Mansoor
February 6, 2020
2019 Was 2nd Hottest Year Globally on Record
Scientists announced that 2019 now ranks as the second hottest year globally. It comes in second to 2016 by less than 1 degree Fahrenheit.
By Jasmine Aguilera
January 15, 2020
Will Australia's Fires Get Leaders to Act on Climate?
Families huddle on a once picturesque beach as their homes burn behind them. Baby koalas, their fur singed, cling to their mothers as they face a fiery demise. And military helicopters whomp overhead, searching the...
By Justin Worland
January 9, 2020
Greta Thunberg Says She Wouldn't Have Talked to Trump
Greta Thunberg says that she “wouldn’t have wasted [her] time” talking to President Donald Trump about the threat of climate change if she had the opportunity to speak with him. Since the 16-year-old Swedish activist...
By Tara Law
December 30, 2019
Protests in the Trump Era Have Been Mostly Peaceful. Here's How the 2020 Election Could Change That
Since Donald Trump took office, there has been sustained protest against his Administration and its policies. An estimated 4 million people turned out for the 2017 Women’s March (which was the largest protest in U.S....
By Dana R. Fisher
December 12, 2019
Millions Around The World Strike on Black Friday for Action on Climate Change
The protests are meant to raise awareness of overconsumption and demand action at the U.N.'s COP25, which begins in Spain next week
By Madeleine Carlisle
November 29, 2019
Indigenous Leader from Chad Shares Climate Lessons
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim has spent a decade advocating for indigenous communities in international climate change policy
By Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
September 30, 2019
Litigation is a Powerful Tool for Holding Those Responsible for the Climate Crisis to Account
There couldn’t be a greater contrast between the roaring climate strikes all over the world ahead of the U.N. Climate Summit last week and the austere discipline of a courtroom. But these days the same...
By Tessa Khan
September 25, 2019
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