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...

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...

Adulting in Turbulent Times

June 14, 2024

Acting like a responsible adult can be challenging at the best of times. Add dealing with climate chaos to the mix, and keeping it all together...

Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between

April 5, 2024

Even before Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on...

Rising Temperatures, Rising Prices: How Climate Drives Inflation

March 29, 2024

We’ve heard a lot in the last few years about inflation – how much of it we’re seeing, who’s to blame, when it might be tamed enough for...

Climate Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

March 22, 2024

In the coming decades, the coasts and major urban centers that most Americans call home will come under increasing threat from climate change. The...

What More Can I Do?

March 1, 2024

As climate change impacts our lives more and more, many of us want to know: what can I do to make a difference? If the scale of the crisis feels...

Yes, Happiness and Climate Action Can Go Together

March 24, 2023

Human brains evolved over millions of years to respond to immediate challenges that remained largely unchanged for eons – physical threats, food...

Zen and Coping with Climate

October 15, 2021

More and more of us are seriously worrying about what we’ve done to the earth’s climate. But while climate predictions can be scary, Sister...