Climate Change

Air Quality Alert

Air Quality Alert Air Quality Alert

Global warming continues to impact air quality around the world.  

Jun 29, 2023 / OppArt / Sylvia Hernández

Visitors walk past the New York Stock Exchange

The Right Hates Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) Investing. The Left Should, Too. The Right Hates Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) Investing. The Left Should, Too.

If the right really understood ESG, they would celebrate it, not denounce it.

Jun 29, 2023 / Brad Swanson

Jennifer Carroll Foy standing at a podium in front a sign that reads

Virginians Are Fighting Climate Change Through Down-Ballot Races Virginians Are Fighting Climate Change Through Down-Ballot Races

Twenty of the 25 candidates supported by a pro-environment political group won their primaries.

Jun 27, 2023 / Madeline Ostrander

A view of the Canadian flag in front of the moon as smoke from forest fires reached the center of Ottawa again on June 25, 2023.

Brace Yourself: Canada’s Wildfires Are Only Intensifying Brace Yourself: Canada’s Wildfires Are Only Intensifying

The smoky skies blanketing Ottawa this past weekend demonstrate that the flames are not about to subside anytime soon.

Jun 26, 2023 / Erica Ifill

Homes in the Zero Down subdivision on Guam are reduced to piles of tin and wood debris leaving them unrecognizable in the wake of Typhoon Mawar.

Hope Is a Ghost Island: Guam After Typhoon Mawar Hope Is a Ghost Island: Guam After Typhoon Mawar

Three weeks ago, Mawar tore through the island of Guam, but her people are not waiting to be saved.

Jun 14, 2023 / Julian Aguon

Canadian Wildfire Smoke in New York City

What We Can Learn From the Canadian Wildfires What We Can Learn From the Canadian Wildfires

The smoke that blanketed the US Northeast was not incidental or anomalous but yet another manifestation of accelerating anthropogenic climate change.

Jun 12, 2023 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

Dwindling Water Supply Forces Cities Like Phoenix To Make Hard Choices

Climate Change Could Devastate Life in the West Climate Change Could Devastate Life in the West

In a region with an expanding population, environmental calamity poses even greater challenges to housing and quality of life.

Jun 9, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky

A New Orleans family travels to their home near New Orleans, La., after it was flooded during Hurricane Ida on September 13, 2021.

On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury

The importance of place and the draw of home is at odds with the future we have created for our planet.

Jun 8, 2023 / Jane Braxton Little

Representatives Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Pramila Jayapal D-Wash.), and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) talk with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol after the House passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act

Here’s Why Principled Progressives Opposed a Cruel and Destructive Debt Ceiling Deal Here’s Why Principled Progressives Opposed a Cruel and Destructive Debt Ceiling Deal

These Democrats defied their president and their party leaders to vote against a deal that harms families, the poor, and the environment.

Jun 2, 2023 / John Nichols

Two people holding tree seedlings for planting.

To Curb Climate Change, Young People Are Growing the Green Jobs Market To Curb Climate Change, Young People Are Growing the Green Jobs Market

As environmental concern extends beyonds traditional conservation work, recent graduates are seeking sustainable careers—with more options than ever before.

Jun 2, 2023 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

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