This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Plastic permeates the oceans, clutters landfills, and threatens to create a “near-permanent contamination of the natural environment,” according to researchers. As if that weren’t bad enough, it is also a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What are nature-based solutions? Are they different from green infrastructure? A handful of terms are used to describe the utilization of natural features, systems, and landscapes to solve many of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gardeners in Alaska know that it’s hard to grow big, juicy tomatoes here. But as the climate rapidly warms in the far north, that could change. Anchorage reached 90 degrees…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The challenges local governments and nonprofits face today are almost absurdly daunting. Setting aside the perennial struggle to reconcile ever-growing needs and ever-shrinking budgets, the pandemic has devastated community health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change is raising flood risks in neighborhoods across the U.S. much faster than many people realize. Over the next three decades, the cost of flood damage is on pace…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This summer, Phoenix, Arizona, became the first city in the country to publicly fund an office dedicated to tackling the issue of extreme heat. It’s part of a growing awareness…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bostonians may have grumbled about digging out from almost 2 feet of snow after a historic snowstorm clobbered the Northeast in late January 2022, but it shouldn’t have been a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After record-high temperatures for the last four months of 2021, the Great Barrier Reef is at risk of another mass bleaching event. Experts are shocked and concerned by the unprecedented…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cities across the globe have embraced their instrumental role in tackling climate change. For example, in the lead-up to last November’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, leaders from many…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change is not just an environmental crisis but a human crisis. It is an umbrella issue that will impact every facet of society and exacerbate existing problems like inequality…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As COVID-19 rampages through vulnerable minority populations with tragic consequences, and protests for racial justice surge among a similar demographic, city climate planners see a renewed focus on climate justice.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In this moment — as a global pandemic persists, economies falter, healthcare systems crack and systematic racism and injustice are exposed — we, the climate community, must widen our lens…