By Sonali Kolhatkar There is an obscure mechanism by which fossil fuel companies maintain their global domination even as their products are destroying our futures. Most rank-and-file climate activists haven’t heard of it and most…
By David Gelles The extreme weather. The melting glaciers. The weirdly warm oceans. They’re all the product of global warming, which is being driven by the release of the three most important heat-trapping gases: carbon…
By Maria Gallucci “We don’t have exploding refineries here, and we want to keep it that way,” Hinojosa says from her office in downtown Brownsville, on a stretch of semi-vacant storefronts just blocks from the…
Journalism Should Cover It That Way By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope The press is covering the 2024 campaign as if climate isn’t on the ballot, but 56 percent of US voters are ‘concerned’ or…
Oregon university researchers push novel plan to fight climate change By Gosia Wozniacka A team of scientists led by Oregon State University researchers has devised a new climate change scenario that offers different thinking on…
By Zoya Teirstein People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago. Climate change threatens to undo that progress. Across the planet, animals—and the diseases they carry…
Vermont Law Makes Fossil Fuel Companies Liable for Climate Impacts Interview by Paloma Beltran Vermont’s House and Senate have approved a bill that would make fossil fuel companies financially liable for their carbon pollution and…
By Ian James Heavy rains this winter and spring sent torrential flows down local creeks and rivers, and L.A. County managed to capture and store a significant amount of that stormwater, officials say. To be…
By Èlia Borràs If architects are people who like to think their way around challenges, building schools in Burkina Faso must be the dream job. The challenges, after all, are legion: scorching temperatures in the…
By Adam Mahoney A lawsuit filed five years ago charged several U.S. tech companies with complicity in child labor. Among said companies was Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle producer. Tucked into that lawsuit is…