Colorado River Reckoning: Drought, Climate and Equal Access

June 11, 2021

The Colorado River hydrates more than 40 million people and 5 million acres of farmland from Wyoming to the US-Mexico border -- but it's not...

Finding the Heart to Talk About Climate

June 4, 2021

More than half of Americans surveyed by Pew have talked about climate change one to two times in recent weeks – and that number is even higher...

Should Nature Have Rights?

May 28, 2021

In the last several years, a growing number of countries and places within the United States have tried to establish legal standing for natural...

Hot Cities, Methane Leakers and the Catholic Church

May 21, 2021

In 2017, it got so hot in Phoenix that airplanes literally could not take off, and airlines cancelled dozens of flights. Extreme heat is likely to...

Journey of a Former Coal Miner

May 14, 2021

Nick Mullins is a former fifth-generation coal miner from Clintwood, Virginia and creator of the blog, Thoughts of a Coal Miner. Growing up, his...

Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves

May 7, 2021

Journalist Meera Subramanian has spent years talking with some of the people living closest to climate change in parts of the country where...

Distorted Democracy and the “Zero-Sum Game”

April 30, 2021

In the US, we’ve become accustomed to climate – like nearly everything else – being politicized. Even when potential solutions might benefit...

Living with Climate Disruption

April 22, 2021

We’ve been living with the impacts of a changing climate for years, but those impacts don’t all hit the same way. 
A wildfire amplified by...

REWIND: Billionaire Wilderness

April 16, 2021

How much is access to so-called wilderness tied to wealth?
For many of us, the story of the American wilderness begins when Europeans arrived on...

Investing in a Clean and Equitable Recovery

April 9, 2021

The Biden Administration’s COVID recovery plans promise to prioritize climate and equity alongside economic growth. The shutdowns brought on by...

Entrepreneurs Creating an Inclusive Economy

April 2, 2021

As the spring of 2021 arrives, it would be hard to design a more challenging — or more promising — moment for implementing climate...

Weird Winters

March 26, 2021

Warmer, shorter winters may sound like a relief, especially on the heels of this year’s deep-freeze in Texas and record blizzards in Wyoming and...

When Words Aren’t Enough: The Visual Climate Story

March 19, 2021

While IPCC risk assessments and emission projections can help us understand climate change, they don’t exactly inspire the imagination or...

The Political Reality of Climate Action

March 12, 2021

True to his campaign promise, President Biden dove right into the climate crisis on Day One, signing a stack of executive orders that signaled his...

Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos

March 5, 2021

After months of dealing with a volatile political climate, it’s easy to overlook the actual climate, and how it’s impacting Americans daily....

John Kerry, Gina McCarthy and Biden’s Climate Team

February 26, 2021

Joe Biden did not start out as the “climate candidate” – that was a title first claimed by Washington Governor Jay Inslee, one of  more than...

Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert, Kim Stanley Robinson and Jeff Biggers

February 19, 2021

In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with characters in worlds decimated by industrial...

Killer Combination: Climate, Health and Poverty

February 12, 2021

What happens when climate, public health and poverty converge?
Author and activist Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in rural Lowndes County,...