Climate Policy Is Working

KELLY SIMS GALLAGHER is Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Interim Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University. These young people despaired of attempts by their governments to ... Read More

How Advocates Are Making Climate Change A Part Of Everyday Business

There is a battle being fought over how businesses operate. It comes down to one question. Do businesses have an obligation to prevent climate change? Read More

Earth Day 2024 report card: Experts address America's climate change action

As the effects of climate change come knocking at American doors, experts say U.S. lawmakers can no longer rely on crisis response measures and must take action. Read More

Sick, hot world: Climate change favors disease vectors, threatening to unleash more pandemics

And those changes extend beyond rising sea levels and heat waves to how diseases spread and impact society. For example, climate change is a breeding ground for intensified cholera outbreaks — one of ... Read More

In the Race to Lower Global Emissions, the Middle East Is Certainly Not Helping

Some of the countries facing the biggest threat from the climate crisis seem all too intent on making it far worse. Read More

Gwen Frisbie-Fulton: We are facing more than a warmer spring

I just about fell out,” my friend tells me after her first day on a road crew. It’s the summer of 2019, and she’s proud to be the first woman ... Read More

From the Library to the Election in Letters

THANK YOU FROM THE LIBRARY This letter is a giant thank you to all of the people who volunteered or shopped at the Friends of the Library Book Sale this last weekend. The lines were the longest we ... Read More

Global Military Spending Increase Threatens Humanity And The Planet

In the face of multiple escalating threats to humanity and life on earth, global military spending increased to its highest ever recorded level last year according to new figures released by the ... Read More

Column: Here are the 32 coal plants still powering the American West

Over the last two decades, 21 coal-fired power plants have shut down across the Western U.S. Twenty-one down, 32 to go. Those numbers are based on a Sierra Club tracker and an L.A. Times analysis. Read More

Tourism ‘Intrinsically Susceptible’ To Climate Shocks, Political Unrest, Pandemic Threat

“Despite the spectacular benefits reaped across its vast supply chains – tourism is also intrinsically susceptible to a host of disruptive forces – such as climate change, pandemics, acts of terrorism ... Read More

Takeaways from AP's investigation into fatal police encounters involving injections of sedatives

An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 ... Read More

Greens senator Larissa Waters announces support for controversial Pioneer Burdekin scheme

The Greens have spoken up for the first time about Australia’s largest renewable energy project, declaring their “in principle” support for the controversial $12bn Pioneer Burdekin pumped hydro scheme ... Read More