Gloria Walton and Wawa Gatheru Believe in Grassroots Change, Not Just Charity

September 12, 2025

Those standing up to climate and environmental injustice face challenges they weren’t seeing a year ago. But Gloria Walton, president and CEO of...

How Students and Teachers Are Talking About Climate

September 5, 2025

Students are heading back to school, and in addition to all of the usual challenges of the school year, students and teachers have to deal with...

Nathaniel Stinnett: Climate Disruption Is a Homicide, Not a Suicide

September 3, 2025

According to one recent survey, Americans think about climate change more than abortion, immigration, or gun violence. And yet, while they care...

Small Dollar, Big Impact

August 29, 2025

The Earth doesn’t care where cuts to heat-trapping pollution happen. So if we’re interested in getting the biggest bang for our climate buck,...

Batteries Now Included

August 22, 2025

The Trump administration has taken aim at green energy, but one technology has largely been left untouched: batteries to store wind and solar...

Cause of Death: Air Pollution

August 15, 2025

Pollutants from burning fossil fuels — from smokestacks, tailpipes, gas flares and more – are warming our world and poisoning our air....

Young People Are Bringing Climate To Court. And Winning.

August 8, 2025

We’re all feeling the effects of the fossil-fueled climate crisis, but young people will not let this threat to their future go unchallenged....

Scorching Premiums: Climate Costs Hit Insurance Markets

August 1, 2025

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans experience destructive and deadly weather disasters, from storms to floods to wildfires....

Trump’s Megabill Comes for the Clean Energy Transition

July 18, 2025

Three years ago, Congress passed President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in U.S. history. The IRA...

Biomimicry & Green Burial: Living and Dying with Nature in Mind

July 11, 2025

Nature can feel distant from our everyday lives. Maybe it’s a place we visit on the weekends, a getaway from the hustle and bustle, something...

He Started Tesla Employees Against Elon. Then Got Fired.

July 1, 2025

Matt LaBrot was the Tesla sales manager who got so fed up with how Elon Musk’s public persona affected the brand that he published a website...

Is the EV Transition Stuck in Neutral?

June 27, 2025

The Biden administration set ambitious goals to rapidly electrify the U.S. car market. But in spite of significant government incentives provided...

Dead Heat: The Danger Of Home Power Shutoffs

June 20, 2025

Summer is here, temperatures are rising — and so are electric bills. That also means many Americans are facing a severely overlooked issue:...

Super Pollutants: The Hidden Half of Global Warming

June 13, 2025

About half of global warming is driven by pollutants that aren’t carbon dioxide. There are several of these “super pollutants” — so named...

Three Big Thinkers With No Room for Doom

June 6, 2025

There’s so much hard and heavy news out there right now, climate related and not. It feels like decades of progress is being lost. 
“We can...

I’m Walkin’ Here! A Report Card on Congestion Pricing

May 30, 2025

For years, traffic in downtown Manhattan was a gridlock nightmare. But since January, drivers who come into the city’s busiest area during peak...

Murder, Pollution as Policy, and Two Women Who Won’t Give Up

May 23, 2025

Some may know Alexis Madrigal as the host of Forum on KQED, San Francisco’s NPR station. He’s also the author of “The Pacific Circuit,”...

Honoring Environmental Heroes in 2025

May 16, 2025

What compels ordinary people to take extraordinary actions in defense of clean air and water? Every year, the Goldman Environmental Prize...

Tracking Trump’s Attack on Environmental Protections

May 9, 2025

About fifty years ago, multiple environmental disasters, including the Cuyahoga River catching fire, forced a reckoning with how we care for the...

San José Mayor Matt Mahan: Live from SF Climate Week

May 6, 2025

Climate progress is stalling at the federal level, making local action more critical than ever. “In an increasingly urbanized world, cities must...