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Want Proof We Need a Civilian Climate Corps? Look No Further Than Louisiana
Gulf Coast communities are on the frontline of climate change. A program now being debated in Congress could put people to work building a more resilient South
The Amazon Now Emits More Carbon Than it Absorbs. Can We Ever Reverse That Tipping Point?
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. It’s a high bar to clear, but this is one of the most depressing facts I’ve read as a climate journalist: the Amazon rainforest—a region known as “the lungs…
The Day ‘Hot Girl Summer’ Came to Congress
Will a Megan Thee Stallion reference get people to care about the most important agency for climate policy?
Climate, Not Conflict. Madagascar’s Famine is the First in Modern History to be Solely Caused by Global Warming
Heatwaves, wildfires, floods. If there’s still any doubt that the summer of 2021 is a turning point for a global awakening over the looming climate crisis, you can add one more plague of biblical proportions to the list: famine. The southern part of the island nation of Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa, is…
How Deadly Flooding in Germany and Belgium Exposed Europe’s Climate Change Hubris
"We have to get rid of this thought that somehow extreme and severe weather cannot impact us"
The Climate Crisis Is a Call to Action. These 5 Steps Helped Me Figure Out How to Be of Use
At the age of 16, perched on a ridge in western North Carolina, I scrawled these words into a handbound journal: Want to help the world. Be connected with the Earth. Change the way I live. My mother has always called the Appalachians “wise old mountains,” not as tall or dramatic as their younger brethren…
Greenland Bans All Future Oil Exploration Citing Climate Concerns
Greenland explained that the price of extraction was “too high”
Varshini Prakash on Youth Power and Building a Broad Climate Movement
The youth climate organizer from Sunrise Movement speaks with Rolling Stone for the latest installment of “The Next Wave,” a series on the new leaders who will shape America’s future
How Climate Change Science Has Changed Due to COVID-19 Restrictions
In late 2019, expeditioners and guides Hilde Falun and Sunniva Sorby went to Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago to complete a long-term goal of being the first female team to over winter in the Arctic. But the pair’s planned return home to mainland Norway coincided with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and pretty quickly they…
Because Fracking Wasn’t Already Toxic Enough, the Oil and Gas Industry Decided to Add ‘Forever Chemicals’ to the Mix
The EPA allowed PFAS, a highly toxic class of compounds linked to cancer and birth defects, to be used in fracking wells since 2011, a new report reveals
West Coast Extreme Heat Returns as Fires Threaten Power Lines
The Bootleg Fire is one of 13 new blazes burning across several states, from Montana to Arizona
Mayor of Canadian Town Destroyed by Wildfire Writes Heartbreaking Letter to Residents
An estimated 90 percent of the British Columbia town was destroyed by a climate change-fueled blaze during an historic heat wave