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Mark GongloffBloomberg |
When the US leaves the Paris climate agreement at President Donald Trump’s command about a year from now, it will join Iran, Libya and Yemen as the...
On top of the human tragedy they’re still inflicting, the Los Angeles wildfires are exposing a gap between what people thought their homes were...
With Donald Trump soon to enter the White House, you’re more likely to be eaten by a shark than to see meaningful climate action at the federal...
The wildfires terrorizing Los Angeles this week have been like something out of a movie: vast, fast-moving, unpredictable, merciless. Their scope and...
If you’re looking for a paragon of the renewable-energy transition, you won’t find it in most of Europe or anywhere in China or even in...
Because it’s apparently too hard to cut the carbon emissions heating up the planet, many countries plan to sweep much of their pollution under the...
This has been the hottest year in recorded human history. Its unprecedented temperatures stoked devastating wildfires, floods, cyclones, droughts...
As a concept, environmentally responsible investing is in its flop era. Right-wing backlash has turned “ESG” into a four-letter word in...
Jaw-jaw may be better than war-war, but when it comes to climate change, the world’s jaw is apparently wired shut these days. If we hope to avoid...
In poll after poll, Americans say they care about climate change. But then again, they also say they care about democracy, women’s rights and...
Maybe it never rains in Southern California, but for about a month this fall it also never rained in New York City, which this week asked citizens...
If you live in any of nearly 100 countries around the world, worry about climate change and want your government to do something to help, then it...
When we think about the economic damage of climate change, most of us probably think about the physical destruction wrought by mammoth disasters...
If you enjoy having migraine headaches, you might want to spend some time thinking about the future of Florida’s housing market in an era of...
It may be hard to believe, but about a month ago, people were calling this year’s hurricane season a bust. Now we’re facing a second devastating...
There’s an old saying that a recession is when you lose your job and a depression is when I lose mine. A similar logic applies to floods....
If you were asked to draw the front lines of climate change on a map of the US, you’d probably include all the coasts, along with Arizona,...
What more fitting way to wrap up Climate Week than with a monster natural disaster that was almost certainly made stronger and more destructive by...
Americans are increasingly familiar with the many joys of wildfire smoke: stinging eyes, raspy throats, aggravated health conditions,...
“Campaign in poetry, govern in prose,” former New York Governor Mario Cuomo once famously advised politicians. For some reason, this rule...
Can a flood be called a thousand-year flood if it happens every five years? That’s a question worth asking this week in the southern US, central...
Imagine you borrow $1 million from me, and then I burn down your house and steal your car so you can’t drive to work anymore. But then I offer you...
If I had to grade the debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump from a climate perspective, I would give it a...
When our early ancestors discovered the many benefits of chucking logs in a fire, the concept of “clean energy” would likely have been much harder...
Humans can survive whole days without food, shelter or internet, but they can’t last long without water. Which is why it’s so weird that...
Before “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” was a Taylor Swift song, it was a punch line to a Paula Poundstone joke from the 1980s about how,...
With the planet heating up and nature growing more deadly and destructive, new tools to help people gauge their climate risks are landing faster...
Politicians usually pay attention to issues that two-thirds of Americans agree on because politicians want votes, and paying attention to popular...
Four years ago, the rise of remote work created a new version of the American dream: No longer forced to live close to the office, millions of...
Cassandras seldom get opportunities to be right about two disasters. Even the original Cassandra scored no notable victories after predicting the...
“Weird” is the word of the hour in US politics. But it also does a good job of describing how natural disasters are behaving as the planet heats...
For decades, global warming was widely seen as a tomorrow problem, something for our hapless grandchildren to worry about. But with heat records...
Fighting climate change is difficult partly because humans are weird. It’s difficult to get them to care about their own future well-being much...
Imagine you’re one of the world’s wealthiest people and the chief executive officer of one of the world’s biggest electric-car makers. It’s...