Climate Change

The Sunrise Movement has organized protests like this one in July in Philadelphia to pressure the Democratic National Committee to hold a primary debate focused on climate change. Jeff Brady/NPR Democratic National Committee officials will vote today on whe…

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, who mounted a dogged presidential candidacy raising the alarm about climate change, dropped out of the 2020 race Wednesday after struggling to earn a place in the next Democratic primary debate. Im not going to be the president…

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For cities in the United States, the price of infrastructure projects to combat rising seas and intensifying storms is coming into focusand so is the sticke…

By Kate Ryan NEW YORK, Aug 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate change will damage the economies of countries whether they are rich or poor, hot or cold by the year 2100, economists said in a new report, dispelling the notion that impoverished, warm cou…

President Donald Trump often boasts that he has done more than any other president. "Nobody has even come close," he told reporters outside the White House last month.  And there's no question, he has been a very busy fellow. In the past week alone, Trump l…

What began as a day of fire a week and a half ago has now turned daytime skies in São Paulo an inky black. The Amazon has been in deep, deep trouble ever since far-right president Jair Bolsnaro took over running Brazil. Advocates feared his regime would commi…

In the basement of the sprawling Summerhall arts center, Extinction Rebellion has put together an exhibition of visual art that seeks to persuade governments and the public to take urgent action on climate change. The exhibition includes Gabrielle Gillotts Sa…

When climate change comes for our coffee and our wine, well moan about it on Twitter, read about it on our favorite websites, and watch diverting videos on YouTube to fill the icy hole in our hearts. Well do all this until the websites go dark and the network…

Here is a simple truth: The world cannot build more fossil fuel infrastructure and have a habitable climate. Science bears this out, and a growing number of people around the world are putting their bodies on the line in the service of said science and habita…

This is what climate change looks like