Any response to climate change that fails to take into account the loss of biodiversity is fatally flawed, according to a report released last week by a team of international scientists. The report represents the findings of a “four-day virtual workshop to examine the synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity protection

In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that the greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration—with millions of people displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding, and agricultural disruption. Since then various analysts have tried to put numbers on future flows of climate migrants

In many places around the world, the air is hot, heavy, and depending on the day, clogged with particulate pollution. Your eyes often water. Your cough never seems to disappear. You can no longer simply walk out your front door and breathe fresh air. Instead, before opening doors or windows

It’s a volatile combination in California; the wind, the fire season, and the historic drought. In the San Francisco Bay Area, for the past six weeks or so, the wind picks up every afternoon; there have already been two red flag alerts months before the fire season officially begins and

A report issued by the IEA last month lays out a framework for countries to reach Net Zero emissions by 2050, noting that the pledges to date fall significantly short of the goal of maintaining a temperature rise of 1.5 degrees. “Our Roadmap shows the priority actions that are needed

A Republican congressman yesterday suggested altering the moon’s orbit might be a solution to climate change, asking the US Forest Service if this was something they could accomplish. “I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they’ve found that the moon’s orbit is changing slightly and so

Fueled by the passion of Youth4Climate, some 4 million people joined the October 20 Global Climate Strike. And just like that, youth took on the mantle of leadership of the climate crisis. Shouting truth to power, they demanded action to ameliorate the consequences of decades of inaction on the billions of

An estimated 4 million people, inspired by an emboldened youth climate movement, participated in the September 20 Global Climate Strike. “Right now we are the ones who are making a difference. If no one else will take action, then we will,” said 16-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg, who participated in the