Written by: Kimberly White
The United States will provide $1 billion to the United Nations' Green Climate Fund.
President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. would resume its contributions to the UN's flagship climate fund following a six-year hiatus with a...
Written by: James Dunk
Last week, one of the world’s leading medical journals declared the medical community must act now to limit the health effects of climate change.
In a stark editorial, readers of the New England Journal of Medicine were reminded that...
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Written by: Kimberly White
The U.S. Administration has nixed three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Alaska. The three sales would have opened up more than a million acres of ocean...
Written by: Thomas S. Bateman and Michael E Mann
Our species is in a race with climate change, and a lot of people want to know, “Can I really make a difference?”
The question concerns what’s known as agency. Its meaning...
Written by: Cornell Alliance for Science
The expanding use of nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture is pushing nitrous oxide emissions to levels that jeopardize climate goals and the objectives of the Paris Agreement, according to a new study published in Nature.
Nitrous oxide — a...
Written by: Kimberly White
The government of New Zealand is pledging $2 million to help relocate Fijian communities displaced by the climate crisis.
Fiji is comprised of 300 islands and is home to nearly one million people. The Pacific nation is...
Written by: Kimberly White
Governments from around the globe have joined together to kickstart the end of oil and gas. A landmark alliance of national and subnational governments have committed to phasing out the production of oil and gas.
Initially announced...
Courtesy of Yale Climate Connections
Written by: Jeffrey T. Kiehl, PhD
‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ – George Santayana
Our planet’s climate recently achieved a disturbing milestone in history, with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reaching 415...
Written by: Alejandro Cearreta
Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin?
These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group – established in 2009 by the International...
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