The victory at Standing Rock could mark a turning point
The defeat of an energy company by indigenous activists shows what nonviolent unity can accomplish. There are lessons here as we enter a challenging new age.
When a City Stops Arguing About Climate Change and Starts Planning
Charleston, South Carolina, is adapting to a hotter, wetter and riskier future.
Study Sheds New Insights Into Global Warming Trends
A new multi-institutional study of the temporary slowdown in the global average surface temperature warming trend observed between 1998 and 2013 concludes the phenomenon represented a redistribution of energy within the Earth system, with Earth’s ocean absorbing the extra heat. The phenomenon was referred to by some as the “global warming hiatus.”
Great Barrier Reef suffered worst bleaching on record in 2016
Higher water temperatures in 2016 caused the worst destruction of corals ever recorded on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, a study has found.
Thinning, retreat of West Antarctic Glacier began in 1940s
New research by an international team shows that the present thinning and retreat of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is part of a climatically forced trend that was triggered in the 1940s.
Record-breaking Hurricane Otto transit Central America, eye intact
Otto was a storm that made history — for its intensity so late in the year, for where it struck and for where it traveled.
What businesses want Trump to know about climate change
Nearly 400 companies and nonprofits signed a letter to express support for the Paris climate agreement. The Guardian UK asked a handful to tell us why.
John Kerry: We will fight to keep US in the Paris climate deal
US secretary of state John Kerry has signalled that the outgoing Obama administration is preparing a fight to ensure that Trump does not withdraw the US from the landmark Paris agreement, to prevent catastrophic climate change. “This is bigger than one person, one president…”
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Despite Trump win: “Let’s fight united, for our environment, for our climate, and for our shared clean energy future — harder than we ever have fought before. If Trump does the things he said he would do on the campaign trail, “it would make his administration the dirtiest one since the first Earth Day in 1970…”