Climate Change

Panicked farmers throughout the Midwest are facing the increasing probability that vast tracts of fields will remain unplanted or crops will fail this growing season as land remains under water or too sodden for farm equipment and plants. The crushing weathe…

Its a different story out in the country. Twenty-three states and Puerto Rico, have now joined the United States Climate Alliance, which pledges to uphold the Paris climate agreement and to try to meet its goals despite President Trumps disavowal of the accor…

Amanda Little is the author of the new bookThe Fate of Food: What Well Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World. She recently sat down with me at Betaworks to discuss lab-grown meat, GMOs, and why we need to really think through how technology can save our coff…

As the head of the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres works to solve the world’s thorniest issues from humanitarian crises to international terrorism knowing that the nature of these conflicts prevents any definitive resolution. But climate c…

Reuters photographer Nacho Doce has documented the changing landscape of mangrove forests in Cairu, Brazil, and the livelihoods of people who fish for crabs and oysters. Image copyrightNacho Doce / Reuters The photographer visited a community of mud houses …

As University of Oregon Law Professor Greg Dotson, a former senior energy congressional staffer, pointed out in an essay on theconversation.com titled Why E.P.A.s U-turn on Auto Efficiency Rules Gives China the Upper Hand: Reversing course on the E.P.A.s tail…

When speaking to David Lapola it is hard not to feel both his excitement and frustration. On the one hand, the biologist from the University of Campinas in Brazil is about to oversee the launch of a pioneering trial deep in the Amazon to see how its trees cou…

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For Olga, this aid is important so that we can lift ourselves up right here, so we dont have to migrate. I thought back to my home state of Arizona, where the remains of 127 migrants were recovered in the harsh desert just last year, 84 of them unidentifiabl…

It's fine and all to talk about wanting to get rid of coal plants (though shouldn't his effort be focused on China here to really help the climate??). But shouldn't you have an idea for what WILL BE rather than just trying to stop what is, or is being built?…