This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I am deputy director of Green 2.0 and a Latina. I am also an exception to the rule. From 2017 to 2020, major environmental organizations added just two people of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two important events hosted by the United Nations are coming up that are widely hoped to help address what the U.N. calls the “dual challenge” – fighting climate change and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In early 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic was touted as “the great equalizer.” As COVID-19 cases rose and the global death toll dominated daily headlines, things never seemed so daunting. Nobody…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It was 1 a.m. when Oscar Sampayo first saw the death threat against him. He was home alone, like he had been for most of quarantine. Signed by the paramilitary…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tropical Storm Nicholas made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in Texas early on Tuesday morning, bringing high winds and torrential rainfall to the state’s coastal communities. The storm has weakened into…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Colombia is the world’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders, a report published on Monday by Global Witness, an international human rights group, highlighted. For the second year in a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After Superstorm Sandy hit New York in 2012, the city and state spent billions recovering from the storm and building new storm surge protections for its subway system. Seven years after the storm, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. People’s views about climate change, from how worried they are about it affecting them to how willing they are to do something about it, have shifted in developed countries around…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the total global population continues to rise and economic growth drives a transition towards more resource-intensive diets, a growing number of consumers are concerned with how to reduce the environmental impact of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Western U.S. is experiencing another severe fire season, and a recent study shows that even high mountain areas once considered too wet to burn are at increasing risk as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Air pollution was responsible for 9,700 more deaths in 2018 than it was in 2016, according to a new paper by economists at Carnegie Mellon. The researchers, Karen Clay and Nicholas…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The past two years have witnessed increasingly vocal calls for rapid decarbonization of the global economy through a clean energy transition. A growing list of multibillion-dollar climate disasters in the…