Greenland ice melt will raise global sea levels at least 10 inches, scientists conclude
The scientists worry severe melting events, like the melting seen in 2012, could push eventual sea level rise closer to 30 inches.
End Polluter Welfare Act introduced to Senate
“Providing corporate giveaways during a time of widespread suffering to fossil-fuel companies is unconscionable.”
Doomsday clock moves to 100 seconds before midnight due to threats of nuclear war...
"We ask world leaders to join us in 2020 as we work to pull humanity back from the brink."
Carbon’s climbing curve: Confronting a climate unseen in millions of years
The current state of atmospheric CO2 levels, as revealed by the comprehensive study, marks a critical juncture in Earth's climatic history and humanity's future.
Getting mad and getting even
California's climate lawsuit—the result of a deliberate cover-up.
South Korea’s Green New Deal: Myths versus realities
There's one place in the world where the Green New Deal is a policy reality. But is it living up to its hype?
Victory for activists as DNC considers hosting a climate-specific debate
Youth and climate activists had relentlessly expressed their desire for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to host a climate change presidential debate....
As industry pushes billion-dollar fracked petrochemical projects, state regulators struggle to keep up
“I’m really worried when you see this kind of very large investment and then we try to play catch-up on evaluating what the risks and the impacts on people are.”
Study links most Amazon deforestation to 128 slaughterhouses
The study adds weight to the idea that the most effective deforestation enforcement strategy is not to regulate the Amazon’s 400,000 ranchers and farmers, but for government to enter into effective deforestation enforcement partnerships with the slaughterhouses.
From across the country, gifts of tiny houses arrive for Standing Rock
How five large trees in remote Oregon ended up as winter housing for water protectors, including their first newborn baby.