Climate Change

Almost a year after Trump was elected president of the United States, I joined the good news industry. That is to say, I took a job at a publication whose mission was finding and amplifying not the seemingly ubiquitous signs of civilizational crisis, but instead positive news stories about climate…

HARDIN, Mont. (AP) — In the coal fields of eastern Montana, climate change is forcing a stark choice: halt mining that helped build everything from schools to senior centers or risk astronomical future damage as fossil fuel emissions warm the planet and increase disasters, crop losses and premature deaths. One…

Carbon offsetting is a controversial tool as companies progress their net zero ambitions. Food giants Nestlé and Unilever stand accused of greenwashing​ over their climate commitments, for instance. A report from the NewClimate Institute investigated 25 global companies, including Nestlé and Unilever, and concluded their climate pledges mostly lack integrity.…

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case on February 28 that could limit the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to curtail heat-trapping emissions at a time when the clock is ticking on our ability to limit catastrophic climate change. West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency is…

In the past few years, wildfires have broken out around the world at a scale rarely experienced by modern humans. In 2020, fires in the western U.S. charred more than 10 million acres, killed at least 43 people, and inflicted $16.5 billion in damage. Australia’s Black Summer, the devastating fire…

By Jonah Fisher BBC Environment Correspondent Image source, Getty Creative/Philip Silverman Image caption, A small group of backbench Conservative MPs are challenging the government's net zero policies With the cost of living rising, are Britain's plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions too expensive? A small but vocal group of Conservative…

When it comes to personal action against climate change, sometimes it can feel like banging your fists against a brick wall. You can try as you might—but no matter what you do, it seems as though that giant structure in front of you will never fall. And lots of the…

“Food agriculture, unfortunately, is a key contributor to climate change, species decline, soil degradation and water shortages. And that is a result of the types of foods that we eat the most, and the way they’re grown, which is taking too much resources, damaging the land and hugely contributing to…

The American West is 22 years into its worst megadrought since the year 800.* That’s being fueled by the climate crisis, which is, in turn, being fueled largely by the burning of coal, oil, and gas. A study published last week in Nature Climate Change found that 42 percent of…

Besides showcasing several varieties, it highlighted the importance of millets in addressing climate change Besides showcasing several varieties, it highlighted the importance of millets in addressing climate change The Ananta Aadarana Millet Farmer Producer Organisation, which represented Andhra Pradesh at the Dubai Expo-2020 from February 17 to 19, has received…