Eight key takeaways from the new National Climate Assessment
We’ve made progress on climate change, but there’s still a lot of work to be done, according to a sweeping scientific report. The U.S. has…
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Road or Us
You probably already know that automobiles are major consumers of fossil fuels, and they produce vast amounts of the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate…
Eels, Cocaine and Climate Change
This summer many media outlets smelled blood in the water and went on a feeding frenzy, publishing sensationalized reports about sharks getting high on cocaine…
Why resolving how land emissions are counted is critical for tracking climate progress
The importance of the land use, land-use change and forestry sector (which is often referred to as LULUCF) is reflected in 118 of 143 countries…
Climate Education Suffers From Partisan Culture Wars
Climate change education has been caught in the crossfire of the culture wars. While some U.S. states are boosting climate literacy, others are effectively miseducating…
Fungi can both help, combat and prevent climate change
There are many ways to fight climate change. Using fungi to combat climate change is benign, easy, and less expensive than high-tech solutions. Industrial agriculture…
How fast are the seas rising?
Global sea level has risen 6.7 inches (170 mm) over the past 100 years — and the rate of rise has doubled since the 20th…
Coalition Calls on IPCC to Reject Meat Industry Meddling in UN Climate Process
“We encourage the IPCC to maintain its credibility by taking steps to ensure that Big Agriculture and the global meat industry have no influence over…
How the beef industry is trying to change the maths of climate change
Fresh off the heels of a major methane ‘win’ at the Glasgow climate summit, the American beef lobby is leading a global effort to change…
Southern Europe braces for climate change-fuelled summer of drought
Southern Europe is bracing for a summer of ferocious drought, with some regions already suffering water shortages and farmers expecting their worst yields in decades….
Progressing backwards
“I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong.” Christiana Figueres, the former Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, wrote…
Soil, Fungi, Agriculture and Climate Change
What do ancient Sanskrit texts, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Franklin Roosevelt have in common? They recognized the importance of soil to humanity. Ancient…
Urgent action needed in food sector to curb warming: Study
A study recently published in Nature Climate Change found that the global food sector alone, the way it is now, could add nearly 1 degree…