Net Gains: Saving Seafood Before It’s Too Late

April 11, 2025

More than three billion people rely on seafood as a primary source of animal protein. Yet due to the effects of the climate crisis, water is...

AI’s Power Demands: Do We Really Have the Energy for This?

April 4, 2025

Artificial intelligence applications have exploded in the last couple of years, and their power demands are equally explosive. The U.S. Department...

Trump Breaks Wind?

March 28, 2025

“Coming into [the] Biden administration, there were zero commercial scale offshore wind projects approved in America. But at the end, after four...

Justice and Faith: Catherine Coleman Flowers and Justin J. Pearson

March 21, 2025

The Trump administration has been working hard to dramatically cut the size of the federal workforce and repeal numerous Biden climate policies in...

Making Cents Out of Watts: What’s Driving Up Your Energy Bills?

March 14, 2025

Across the country, people are seeing their electric bills go up, sometimes painfully so. “A third of Americans say that they've skipped food,...

Is ESG BS?

March 7, 2025

When it comes to addressing the causes of climate change, individual action is necessary but insufficient. The truth is that the government and...

The $300M Lawsuit That Could Crush Dissent

February 28, 2025

Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, is suing Greenpeace for $300 million. The 2016 protests against the...

Disasterology: Navigating Fossil-Fueled Chaos

February 21, 2025

There’s been a big increase in the number of billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. In just the last five years, those events have killed more...

Solar Power to the People

February 14, 2025

At this moment, the cheapest way to create electricity is by pointing a solar panel at the sun. That’s good news for the climate. It’s also...

Drag Queen Pattie Gonia: Bringing Joy to Climate Action

February 7, 2025

Addressing climate change can take many forms. For some, like the R&B duo Mike Roberts and Will Hammond Jr., it’s creating music videos to...

What Climate Progress Is Possible Now?

January 31, 2025

The second Trump administration has hit the ground running. The president has signed a flurry of executive orders targeting everything from...

LA Wildfires: Loss, Recovery and Resilience

January 24, 2025

It’s been more than two weeks since massive infernos started in Los Angeles. New fires just broke out near San Diego. As of when this episode...

Even Old Houses Can Learn New Elec-Tricks

January 17, 2025

If we include personal cars, along with appliances like water heaters, stoves and furnaces, more than 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions...

Leah Stokes: 2024 Schneider Award Winner

January 10, 2025

Every year Climate One grants the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication to one scientist. This year’s...

REFRESH – Big Plastic: The New Big Oil

December 27, 2024

Plastics are everywhere. Jane Patton, U.S. Fossil Economy Campaign Manager at the Center for International Environmental Law - says, “They're...

This Year in Climate: 2024

December 20, 2024

2024 set new records for extreme heat around the world in what is already the warmest decade on record. According to the World Meteorological...

Transfer of Power: Life After Coal

December 13, 2024

For more than a century, coal powered much of the U.S. Now it's on its way out. That means all across the country, the communities that were built...

What Trump 2.0 Means for the Climate

December 6, 2024

For climate-concerned citizens, the recent November elections were hugely disappointing. As a candidate, Donald Trump said he would be a dictator...

Heroic Lives of Climate Defenders

November 22, 2024

Climate advocacy is a dangerous business. According to Global Witness, every week, somewhere in the world, between three and four environmental...

Where Do We Go From Here? COP29 and the Path Ahead

November 15, 2024

The nations of the world are gathering in Baku, Azerbaijan for the annual climate summit known as COP. There they’ll try to agree on how to slow...