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

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

The reason they make sounds at all is basically because glaciers contain bubbles, which make sounds. We mentioned that a glacier is a big body of ice, and the number of bubbles in one is just enormous—there are billions of bubbles inside. In contrast, when you have an iceberg, that’s

I was reached out to by a young Indigenous leader who wanted to meet with me. We did so, and we had a deep and substantive talk for several hours. The one thing that has stayed with me about that conversation was when we discussed what could be coming down

Earth Day 2018 marked the 20 year anniversary of climatologist Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” chart, which detailed the pattern of unprecedented warming in the later part of the 20th century and attributed it to the impact of fossil-fuel-driven development on earth’s atmosphere. The paper concluded that the 20th century, particularly

By 2050, projections suggest that 2/3 of the world’s population will be residing in cities, a statistic that affirms the need to convert urban landscapes to sustainable, healthy, and environmentally prosperous environments. “Is future urbanization going to be a good thing or a bad thing?” asks filmmaker Oscar Boyson. “If