This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When undocumented migrants cross the U.S.–Mexico border into southern Arizona, they face a perilous journey through the Sonoran Desert, some of the most inhospitable terrain in North America. Summer temperatures…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, finalized new greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks produced through model year 2026 on Monday, a move that will cut carbon emissions…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When you breathe in smoke from a wildfire, you’re probably inhaling more toxic chemicals than you realize. Pollution from power plants and vehicles, pesticides, fertilizers and chemicals in waste can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has sent a clear message: to keep catastrophic climate change impacts at bay, we need to keep our warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, and the land…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cities, which generate three-quarters of global carbon emissions, are fast becoming the battleground where the fight against climate change will be won or lost. Planet-warming emissions will worsen as sprawling…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Santra Denis returned from the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November with a clear reminder of how women worldwide are more similar than they are different. Denis attended…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The concept of reaching net zero emissions has grown from an emerging idea to a mainstream mechanism for countries, cities and corporations to drive emissions reductions and limit the effects…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the important next steps for business leadership to take on climate change, especially in the wake of COP26, is to think through how to engage their customers on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Like many inventions, the discovery of Teflon happened by accident. In 1938, chemists from Dupont (now Chemours) were studying refrigerant gases when, much to their surprise, one concoction solidified. Upon…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than a third of the nation’s 100 large cities have failed to establish overall community-wide climate goals, and just 19 of the 38 that have data available on their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Thermal coal is the number one cause of global temperature rise. It is responsible for nearly half of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide and 72 per cent of greenhouse gas (GHG)…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One in 29 people worldwide needs humanitarian assistance, the United Nations said on Thursday, as underfunded aid agencies struggle to keep pace with rising human suffering driven by the climate…