News in Brief The Unique Burden of Covering Climate Change in the Middle East Some of climate change’s earliest effects have desolated areas of the Middle East and destabilized regional governments. For… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Is the Oil Industry Dying? The peak oil controversy stages a comeback as the industry confronts a future of higher costs — and low prices.… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Making a Mass Anti-Extinction Movement Leading conservation scientists are calling for bold political action to combat the loss of our planet’s largest animals.… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief People Are Calling Natural Gas a ‘Bridge’ to a Sustainable Future—They’re Wrong For America to reach full renewable energy, we need to re-focus our investments — and divest ourselves of some dangerous… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Arctic Army Testing Site That Climate Change Could Uncover Engineers once thought snow would always accumulate in Greenland, thus burying, forever, the army bases they abandoned. But… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief For Climate Scientists, the Siberian Anthrax Outbreak Is a Sign of What’s to Come We don’t yet know what else lies buried within the Earth’s permafrost — which is scary, because warming in the… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief No Surprise Here: 2015 Was the Warmest Year Yet The new State of the Climate report is out, and things aren’t looking too good. By Madeleine Thomas… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Dangers Lurking in Permafrost The many unexpected ways climate change can threaten people around the world. By Francie Diep A reindeer in… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Field Notes: Cancun, Mexico Off the coast, 450 life-size sculptures stand on the seafloor, designed by Jason deCaires Taylor to inspire conservation… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief In Cleveland, the Conservative Movement Turned Its Back on Conservation Buried inside its 2016 political platform, the Republican Party proposed an unprecedented attack on this country’s system of… Pacific Standard Staff