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...

In the Eye of the Storm: TV Meteorologists Talk Climate

November 8, 2024

When it comes to communicating climate science, one group of people can have an outsized influence: weathercasters. Regardless of political...

How To Dance With China

October 18, 2024

In the last two decades, China has made big commitments to renewable energy — and it’s delivered. In 2022, China installed as much solar...

What If We Get It Right?

October 11, 2024

In the face of increasingly frequent fossil fueled disasters, it’s easy to feel hopeless about the future of the climate. But marine biologist,...

No Justice Without Climate Justice

October 4, 2024

A fundamental truth of the climate crisis is that its impacts aren’t felt equally. 
“What do we know about fossil fuels? The people who...

Jane Goodall: Celebrating 90

September 27, 2024

Environmental icon Jane Goodall is celebrating 90 years of life, and she’s not backing off of her passionate commitment to nature. Goodall says...

Turning Election Anxiety Into Action

September 13, 2024

This is a big year for elections. Citizens in more than 60 countries — about half of the world’s population — have already voted or will...

Cheaper, Faster, Better: Tom Steyer on Winning the Climate War

September 6, 2024

Tom Steyer rose to public prominence as the billionaire investor and climate organizer who ran for president in the 2020 election on a...

Military Power: Balancing Security and Climate Threats

August 30, 2024

The U.S. military is one of the largest armed forces in the world. Its physical footprint is huge — about 750 bases across 80 countries, plus...

What’s a Climate-Conscious Republican to Do?

August 23, 2024

The leaders at the top of the Republican party want the U.S. to double down on carbon-intensive oil and gas — and avoid reckoning with the...

What the FERC Is Going on With the Electric Grid

August 16, 2024

We need a better electric grid. And we need it now. 
For decades, we’ve known that the key to slowing down climate change is to use more...

Unions You Wouldn't Expect Bargaining for Climate Action

August 9, 2024

Last year was the hottest in recorded history, and this summer, much of the United States has already experienced record-shattering heat waves....

Thirst Trap: When Big Cities Run Dry

August 2, 2024

This week we take a trip to Mexico, a petro-state that just elected climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum as its next president. She’s also the...