Climate Change Archives

Environment

Trump’s Failure to Set a Cost on Carbon Limits His Own Effort to Expand the Fossil Fuel Industry

A protracted delay in the Trump administration coming up with its own carbon-cost estimate could empower environmentalists pursuing legal challenges to mining.

Andrew Revkin

A boat tows a group of solar panels before they are connected to a large floating solar farm project on June 14th, 2017, in Huainan, Anhui province, China.

Environment

A Credible Path to 100 Percent Renewable Energy

Most of the world could run on renewable energy by 2050 at a quarter of the cost of the current energy system, all while saving lives.

Bob Berwyn

Economics

How Trump’s Cuts to Biofuels Research Would Hurt the Planet and Our Economy

Biofuels can reduce emissions, benefit American corporations, and create jobs. But slashing the budget of the Bioenergy Technologies Office effectively eliminates those possibilities.

Michael White

Monthly temperature anomalies between 1980-2015.

Environment

The Escalating Global-Warming Crisis, in One Chart

It's really getting hot in here.

Kate Wheeling

Environment

Trump’s Actions on a Recently Drafted Climate Change Report Are ‘Troubled and Opaque’

Several people involved with the study said the heat drawn by the early disclosure of the document might well have the opposite of its intended effect.

Andrew Revkin

Environment

Why Are the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Stalling?

It's the most ambitious project in the history of humankind. If successful, it would solve many of civilization's most pressing challenges.

Jeff Leitner & Tomicah Tillemann

Boats sit docked at the Folsom Lake Marina on April 11th, 2017, in El Dorado Hills, California.

Environment

Why Rain Doesn’t Signal the End of a Drought

It can take years for a tropical forest to return to its previous levels of photosynthesis and growth, and, as the frequency and severity of droughts increases, they may soon outpace the region's ability to recover entirely.

Kate Wheeling