As the World Burns, Big Oil Executives Get Rich Fueling the Fire
Reading Time: 4 minutes While you are doing your small part to save the environment, oil and gas executives are getting bonuses for destroying it.
Students Expose Plot to Cast Doubt on Climate Change
Reading Time: 7 minutes Who is blocking meaningful progress on climate change? Four undergraduate students set out to find the answers.
California Budget Proposal Includes $1 Billion ‘Green Loan Fund’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Initiative would make climate projects more cost-effective for underserved sectors of the state’s economy.
‘We Sleep in Our Gas Masks’: Eyewitness to Australia’s Firestorm
Reading Time: 4 minutes A despairing resident, living in the path of the Australian “fire apocalypse,” describes the horror of the great climate change disaster.
Witnessing Humanity’s Self-Immolation Up Close
Reading Time: 4 minutes The dire state of the environment is humanity’s greatest challenge. Yet most of us do nothing as plastic-filled oceans are rising and the world is literally burning around us. Here are some of our 2019 environmental stories you may have missed.
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Fossil Fuel Companies Plan to Drill More
Reading Time: 4 minutes Over the next five years, oil and gas companies will invest $1.4 trillion into new extraction projects.
Climate Change on Trial: Can the Courts Save the Planet?
Reading Time: 11 minutes A small group of determined Dutch citizens has changed the climate policy of its country through legal action. A similar lawsuit in the US — brought by the “climate kids” — might be headed for the Supreme Court.
Private Firefighters — the Hottest Luxury of the Super-Rich
Reading Time: 4 minutes When only the ultra-wealthy can buy protection from the effects of climate change, where does that leave the rest of us?
Food Poisoning: Climate Change Threatens Health of Billions
Reading Time: 3 minutes New study says global warming could trigger potentially calamitous increase in arsenic levels while reducing rice crop yields.
Climate Change: Killing the Planet or Killing You?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Would an adjustment to their life expectancy get people to do something about climate change?