Killer Heat: Confronting Disproportionate Impacts on Women and Girls

June 9, 2023

Extreme heat kills more people per year than any other climate disaster. It preys on the poor, exacerbates racial inequalities, and there is a...

Missed Connections: Modernizing Our Multiple Grids

April 21, 2023

Thousands of renewable energy projects are ready to be built and start producing fossil-free power, but they’re stuck in a long limbo for one...

Housing Density as a Climate Lever with Scott Wiener

February 24, 2023

The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers....

What the Infrastructure Deal Means for Climate

December 3, 2021

After months of negotiations, Congress finally passed President Biden’s infrastructure act and he signed it into law. Though cut back from the...

Preparing for Disasters We Don’t Want to Think About

September 24, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed structural weaknesses and inequities that existed long before 2020. Like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate disruption...

Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse

September 10, 2021

Water is essential for life, and throughout human history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new...

Flooding in America

August 14, 2020

“We had one of the snowiest winters on record in Lincoln and Omaha,” reports Martha Shulski of the Nebraska Climate Office. She’s describing...

Weathering the Storm: Mayors of Houston, Miami and Columbia

February 8, 2018

2017 brought a raft of extreme weather disasters costing the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, including hurricanes Harvey, Irma...

High Tide on Main Street

November 16, 2017

The coast line has been basically in the same place for all of human civilization and now that’s changing in very unpredictable and unsettling...

C1 Revue: Can Our Connected Lives Be Green and Safe?

April 4, 2017

California has committed to getting one-half of its electricity from renewable sources by the year 2030. But clean energy advocates say the state...