Climate Change Archives

Environment

Eco-Heroes: 10 Leaders Showing That Fighting Climate Change Can Be Good for Everyone’s Bottom Line

Think you can’t mix a healthy climate with a healthy economy? These business leaders and innovators are betting the world on the fact that we can.

OnEarth

News in Brief

At COP21, Combating Misperceptions About Climate Refugees

They number over 100 million. There's a new one every second. And—despite whatever you've heard—almost none of them are relocating to the West.

Ted Scheinman

News in Brief

Portland Is Pushing Back Against Fossil Fuel Interests

Climate activists hope the city's actions could inspire a broader movement.

Julia Rosen

Environment

What Does Vladimir Putin Really Think About Climate Change?

How to decipher the Russian president’s mystifying statements on global warming.

Brian Palmer

News in Brief

A Greener Evangelicalism

Inside the growing evangelical movement to acknowledge the reality—and the victims—of climate change.

Laura Turner

Environment

Meet the Country That’s Making Carbon Reduction Look Easy

The tiny South Asian kingdom of Bhutan absorbs three times as much carbon as it emits.

Brian Palmer

Environment

Here’s What Americans Think About the Environment

It's a little more complicated than "for" and "against."

Nathan Collins

Environment

What Would Success—and Failure—Look Like at COP21?

Here are the best- and worst-case outcomes for the Paris climate talks.

Brian Palmer

Economics

Climate Change Could Cost More Than We Thought

Taking better account of impacts on the world's poor—not just the world's poorest regions—suggests the impacts could be worse than earlier projections.

Nathan Collins