15 years ago electric power generation was the largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Now the...
Environment
Escaping ecological catastrophe and reducing the frequency of pandemics that might be lurking in the decades ahead...
The US electricity grid is actually five regional grids, and it’s hard to share power between them....
The baseline for normal is shifting to higher temperatures. By Jennifer LuddenEnergy and Environment EditorNPR It’s become...
Saltwater is intruding inland, killing trees and turning coastal forests into marshes. By Emily UryPh.D. CandidateDuke University...
Fossil fuel interests are using the same strategies (and even strategists!) that the cigarette industry once used....
This ancient ecosystem showed that the ice sheet had melted to the ground in northern Greenland within...
The tasks of 1933 involved not just greater numbers but radically new concepts and organizational structures. By...
Construction waste is a huge polluter. An international experiment is hoping to reduce that waste to nothing....
Sea level rise is accelerating around the globe, likely to displace millions of people who live in...
“What happens to Earth 100 years from now depends on the choices we make today.” Introduction It’s...
The Earth is a giant magnet because its core is solid iron, and swirling around it is...
The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with large and uneven...
A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. He...
The projected loss of water storage on land as temperatures rise is alarming. The world watched with...
The 19th-century whale hunt was a brutal business, awash with blubber, blood, and the cruel destruction of...
Aligning reforms in financial, trade, environmental, and competition policy. As the Biden-Harris transition team rapidly fills key...
For 200 years, some countries have exploited the marine wildlife of Antarctica, often with devastating impact on...
Aggressive nihilism will let some combination of authoritarian government and an even more harshly inegalitarian economy prevail....
Beliefs about human-nature relationships, religious cosmologies and perceptions of climate change are a set of interrelated concepts....
You’ve probably heard of asbestos before, but maybe you don’t know very much about it. You should...
A return to the old ‘normal’ will only lead us further along the path to the next...
In the middle of a global pandemic, it can be easy to forget the significant danger that...
We all need to be worried. 2020 is continuing to bring deeply worrying climate news from both...
Climate change has potentially already affected global production of the ten largest crops and the production of...
Climate change threatens to do great harm to global food systems. Originally published by the Natural Resources...
This will continue to massively increase through 2050. The big idea Days of extreme high heat and...
Yellow fever, malaria, and Ebola all spilled over from animals to humans at the edges of tropical...
It’s become clear we can’t rely on EPA to do its job. Which is why the task...
Every day new renewables are coming on stream and the reality is we do not need coal...