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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

sunflower sea star

Sea stars pushed to edge of extinction by warming oceans

By Rochelle Baker | Climate Change

Despite worldwide oil glut, Trump releases plan to open Arctic to drilling

By Emily Holden | Climate Change

COVID-19 to have negligible impact on climate crisis

By Damian Carrington | Biosecurity, Climate Change