Climate Change

How supercharged plants could slow climate change | Joanne Chory

How did this happen? The last 30 years or so have seen a kind of war on the very idea of visionary politics. Where 60s rebels called for all power to the imagination, the consensus of the opinion makers who took over as those social movements sputtered has b…

Australia cant seem to catch a break. The Great Barrier reef is still limping along after being ravaged by heat waves two to three years ago, while the people of Australia just sweated through their hottest summer on record. Now, authorities are warning that …

But Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led activist group that has advocated for the Green New Deal, called Mr. ORourkes approach insufficient. The Green New Deal, a nonbinding congressional resolution, calls for a 10-year p…

If you want further proof the 2020 presidential election will be the first presidential election where climate change is treated like it really matters, let me direct you to Beto ORourke. The former member of Congress biggest climate moment to date has been r…

Yes, it is snowing in Chicago and other parts of the Midwest. Yes, it is April 27 a mere four days until May. Yes, people are heading to Twitter and social media to freak out.  And finally, yes, we'll forget our shock as soon as the next extreme weather ev…

My research group studies mangrove forests, which are vital coastal ecosystems that buffer infrastructure during extreme weather and support local fisheries. When I first began my internship at NASA in 2016, I had never heard of mangroves or learned about the…

LONDON (Reuters) - Protesters from the environmental group Extinction Rebellion glued themselves to the British Treasury on Thursday on the final day of protests that have caused mass disruption in the British capital. Eight protesters glued themselves toge…

When it comes to worrying about the environment, its hard to pick just one issue. On the one hand, you have the sixth mass extinction underway. On the other, theres climate change fueling a wholeraftofproblems. Oh, and dont forget toxic air pollution. So much…

The study relies on earlier research by Marshall Burke, an economist at Stanford. In that earlier work, he had found that when temperatures were hotter than average (for any reason), economic growth slowed in poor countries but accelerated in rich countries. …