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climate change

World’s biggest carbon emitters told to reach net zero—by activist investors representing $47 trillion

By Adam Morton | Analysis

The canals of Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station

With climate change, aging nuclear plants need closer scrutiny. Turkey Point shows why.

By Caroline Reiser | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

What it’s like to be a California wildfire evacuee

By Daisy Simmons | Climate Change

Fighting fire with fire

By Jessica Leigh Hester | Climate Change

California’s wildfires: Best coverage in the media

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

Shell gas station

The climate awakening of global capital

By Elliot Diringer, Bob Perciasepe | Climate Change

Over the hump: Have we really reached the peak of carbon emissions?

By Daniel M. Kammen | Climate Change

The climate risks of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

By Sagatom Saha | Climate Change

climate activist protest sign

“If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em”—latest strategy of climate activists at Harvard

By Emily Pontecorvo | Analysis, Climate Change

Former secretaries of state John Kerry and Colin Powell

Convention takeaway: Democrats (and some Republicans) call for a return to multilateralism

By Halley Posner | Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

cover of 1922 Sears kit home catalog

Time for a diet: Today’s US homes have super-sized into “energy gluttons”

By Tim De Chant | Climate Change

What demographic group cares the most about climate change? Latinos, Yale researchers say.

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change