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Hurricanes Rage While the RNC Ignores Climate Change
Reading Time: 4 minutes Last Monday night, Tropical Storm Marco brought record-level rainfall to Pensacola, FL. Even as the torrents
The Capital Note: Update from ESG Street
On the menu today: ESG, Trader Joe’s COVID challenges, autonomous trucks, Argentine subsidies, and Soviet gold.
Biden Unveils $2 Trillion Climate Plan
The new plan dramatically accelerates Biden’s initial promises to devote $1.7 billion to green spending over 10 years.
Can Geoengineering Save the Planet?
Reading Time: 12 minutes Today, we can’t even agree on the basics of a disease that has killed almost 130,000
Summertime and the Living’s Uneasy
Reading Time: 5 minutes At the halfway point, 2020 is shaping up as potentially the worst year for Planet Earth
Cloudless Skies Hasten Greenland’s Ice Loss
Reading Time: 2 minutes This story originally appeared in Climate News Network and is republished here as part of Covering
Rooftop Wind Power Might Take Off by Using Key Principle of Flight
Reading Time: 4 minutes This story originally appeared in Scientific American and is republished here as part of Covering Climate
Norway and the A-ha Moment That Made Electric Cars the Answer
Reading Time: 6 minutes This story originally appeared in the Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now,
Scientist Is Saving Corals by Breeding Them in the Lab
Reading Time: 6 minutes Just off the coast of Singapore, a group of scientists huddles together in the warm ocean
Out of Thin Air — Breakthrough Tech Uses Water Vapor to Generate Electricity
Reading Time: 4 minutes Picture a world entirely powered by clean energy — cars without tailpipes, homes without outlets, and
Jeff Bezos Announces $10 Billion Fund to Combat Climate Change
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Monday that he was committing an initial $10 billion to ‘the Bezos Earth Fund.’
House Democrats Release $760 Billion Green Infrastructure Plan
House Democrats on Wednesday released a $760 billion plan to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure while helping address climate change.
Students Expose Plot to Cast Doubt on Climate Change
Reading Time: 7 minutes In 2019, the year youth around the world stepped out of the classroom and onto the
‘We Sleep in Our Gas Masks’: Eyewitness to Australia’s Firestorm
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is a firsthand account from our local correspondent SOUTH EAST AUSTRALIA – We have been
Witnessing Humanity’s Self-Immolation Up Close
Reading Time: 4 minutes The impact of climate change is impossible to overstate. It is humanity’s gravest threat — one
Environmental groups saw revenue spike, spent heavily amid EPA rollbacks
(Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Amid rising concerns about climate change and extensive rollbacks of environmental regulations under President Donald Trump’s administration,
The Paradox of Global Warming and Colder Winters
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you are shivering in a freezing, snow-blanketed part of the world, global warming might seem
Is Organic Agriculture Worse for Climate Change Than Conventional Farming?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Organic farming has long been considered healthier for the consumer and better for the planet than
An Icon for Saint Greta Thunberg
One Atmosphere, an area non-profit, dedicated a mammoth mural yesterday of the teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Why the Human Mind Can’t Deal With Climate Change
Reading Time: 5 minutes About eight in 10 Americans say that human activity is causing climate change. Approximately half of
What If Everybody Is Wrong About Stopping Climate Change?
Reading Time: 15 minutes The prevailing scientific sentiment on the global ecological crises is that the only road to a