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Why Flying Carbon Class To COP26 Is More Expensive Than Taking the Train
A version of this story first appeared in the Climate is Everything newsletter. If you’d like sign up to receive this free once-a-week email, click here. In less than two weeks, leaders from 196 countries and around 25,000 delegates, activists and protestors will descend on the Scottish city of Glasgow for the United Nation’s 26th…
Climate Chaos Helped Spark the French Revolution—and Holds a Dire Warning for Today
Historians have long observed the links between the natural environment and the fate of civilization. Natural emergencies like droughts, floods and crop failure regularly plunge people into chaos. Long term changes in the earth’s climatic conditions lead flourishing societies like the Roman Empire to wither and fade. But perhaps there is no greater example of…
If the U.S. Spends Big on Climate, the Rest of the World Might Follow
West Virginia has been at the center of a debate over the place of climate change measures in Joe Biden's domestic agenda. The results of this domestic policy fight will have a global impact
U.K. Sets Out Sweeping Plan to Reach Net-Zero Emissions
The government expects the strategy to create 440,000 jobs by 2030
The Fight to Save the Salmon
When you get high enough into the mountains of Idaho, the fish are in the trees. For the past million years or so, sockeye and Chinook salmon have migrated 840 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean, climbing 6,400 ft. into the Rockies and burning calories in their ruddy flesh from the ocean plankton they have…
Grapes of change: French wines adapt to global warming
In France's storied Bordeaux wine region, an experiment aimed at helping some of the world's best-loved tipples to weather the ravages of climate change is starting to bear fruit.
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Grapes of change: French wines adapt to global warming
In France's storied Bordeaux wine region, an experiment aimed at helping some of the world's best-loved tipples to weather the ravages of climate change is starting to bear fruit.
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Celebrities Join Prince William for the Earthshot Prize Awards
The prize is billed as the most prestigious of its kind, granting each winner a million pounds ($1.4 million)
Shutting Down Old Oil Rigs Is Harder—and More Expensive—Than it Sounds
The latest California oil spill has made clear it's time to shut down old rigs. That's easier said than done
Queen Elizabeth and Greta Thunberg Are Sending the Same Message on Climate Change. Will World Leaders Listen?
The Queen's complaint comes only two weeks after Greta Thunberg made strikingly similar remarks
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth Is Not Amused by Climate Inaction
She appeared to criticize the global lack of action on climate change in comments caught on microphone
The Energy Transition Is in Full Swing. It’s Not Happening Fast Enough
Even if you follow these things closely, it can be hard to understand where the world’s fight against climate change stands. On the one hand, news abounds of the clean energy revolution, as wind farms and solar panels pop up in communities across the globe and automakers promise to go electric. On the other hand,…