COP21
How Art Can Inspire Viewers Toward Climate Action
New research finds that art with an activist bent can engage and inspire—if it offers hope.
There Might Be Hope for Us Yet!
Despite continued inaction by Congress, March was a really good month for clean-energy reform.
Can Sports Aid in the Fight Against Climate Change?
Can sports teams muscle environmentalism into the mainstream?
The Future of Biomass After Paris
Amid conflicting assessments of the Paris Agreement, two things are clear: World governments still love carbon markets, and COP21 went a long way toward simply giving slash-and-burn agriculture a makeover.
Saving the Paris Agreement From the Supreme Court
The death of Antonin Scalia may have spared the historic agreement from a premature demise, but its constitutional underpinnings are still in jeopardy.
The Supreme Court v. the Paris Agreement
As the Roberts court issues a stay on Obama's Clean Power Plan, the future of U.S. climate commitments remains uncertain.
India Could Decide the Future of Our Climate
How India builds its energy grid could decide the fate of humanity. Maybe we should help the country out.
The World's Stake in Our 2016 Election Outcome
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.
Promises, Promises
Cities, states, and businesses—not just those world leaders in Paris—will save us from climate change. Here’s what they’re going to do.
Can Congress Stop the Climate Change Deal?
Here are the Senate’s options for trying to muck up the international agreement made in Paris.
'The People Will Have the Last Word'
After dancing around the margins of the COP, on December 12, civil society finally got its day in the spotlight.
Has Laurent Fabius Earned His Champagne?
Optimism reigns as world leaders gavel a landmark climate deal at COP21.
Human Rights Are Women's Rights
Climate change affects women disproportionately—yet tensions among Middle Eastern states, and a dearth of women at COP21, mean the final agreement is unlikely to do much for them.
Trumping the COP
The rise of Donald Trump adds urgency to the fight for climate justice—and reminds us what that fight is really about.
The COP21 Deal Will Go Through Tomorrow
Yesterday, the ministers pulled an all-nighter with Laurent Fabius to produce the penultimate draft of a climate agreement. Resigned to a toothless deal, activists plan their next steps.
For Bill McKibben, the Sideshow Is the Main Event
A foundational figure in America’s contemporary green movement, McKibben says whatever the outcome of COP21, it is citizens who must exert the power.
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.
How to Keep a Culture From Drowning
Esau Sinnok has traveled 4,500 miles to defend his small barrier island against a climate that threatens to sink it.
What Does Putin Think About Climate Change?
How to decipher the Russian president’s mystifying statements on global warming.
The Art of COP21
The tensions at this year's summit have yielded scenes of strange beauty.
A Greener Evangelicalism
Inside the growing evangelical movement to acknowledge the reality—and the victims—of climate change.
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.
At COP21, a Victory for 1.5 Degrees?
Major powers make a major concession on their stated climate targets. Given the money and the science, that concession remains largely rhetorical.
What Would Success—and Failure—Look Like at COP21?
Here are the best- and worst-case outcomes for the Paris climate talks.