Climate Change Archives

Environment

In Abu Dhabi, a Bold Plan to Realize the Paris Agreement

The International Renewable Energy Agency's sixth annual meeting this weekend in Abu Dhabi laid out an ambitious path for doubling renewables as a way to meet mitigation goals—and to create millions of new jobs.

Ted Scheinman

Environment

Saving the Climate Requires Saving Forests

Forest conservation is crucial to climate change mitigation. But do we have any idea how to do it?

Brian Palmer

Environment

How Giant Icebergs Can Help Fight Climate Change

Melting icebergs leave behind a trail of nutrients that seeds the growth of tiny, carbon-sequestering marine organisms.

Kate Wheeling

Environment

Climate Change Is Upending the Ecology of Lakes in the Andes

These tropical lakes are a crucial source of water—and climate change has them in jeopardy.

Noah Schumer

Environment

A Special Report on Climate Change

A re-introduction, from our latest print issue, to an ongoing project from the Pacific Standard team.

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

The Whole World Has a Stake in the Outcome of Our Presidential Election

It would be difficult but not impossible for a Republican president to undo the Paris Agreement. For that reason alone, the 2016 election is about whether the world has a future.

Lucia Graves