The United States needs to set a target to slash its greenhouse gas emissions between 57% and 63% below 2005 levels by 2030 in order to achieve the Biden administration’s Continue Reading
President Joe Biden Candidate Joe Biden rode into the White House promising to build back the economy after the devastation of Covid-19 with cleaner energy and a lower carbon footprint. Continue Reading
More than 10 million people die each year from air pollution, according to a new study — far more than the estimated 2.6 million people who have died from Covid-19 since it was Continue Reading
Douglas Beaver, Chief Resilience Officer in Norfolk, Va. in the historic neighborhood of Chersterfield Heights. When it rains in Norfolk, Va., the residents of the Chesterfield Heights and Grandy Village Continue Reading
Weather-battered Texas is going from ice to fire as dry winds roaring out of the Great Plains stokes the risk of blazes, just weeks after a deep winter freeze. Governor Continue Reading
Jeff Bezos hired Andrew Steer of the World Resources Institute to help him spend a $10-billion commitment to fight climate change by 2030. Steer, also the World Bank’s former special envoy Continue Reading
Before it was pumped, leveed, and paved, south Florida looked like a network of spongy wetlands. Over the course of about a century, those damp lowlands were transformed into a Continue Reading
Here’s one more reason the world should aim to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal of the international Paris Agreement: It will help keep the tropics from becoming Continue Reading
Temperatures in the Arctic Ocean, an area that has a significant influence on the world’s weather, were much warmer last month than the average for the past two decades. Northeastern Canada Continue Reading
President Joe Biden wants to change the way the U.S. uses energy by expanding renewables, but he will need to navigate a host of challenges — including the coronavirus pandemic Continue Reading
