As discussed in our recent Climate Note, an overwhelming majority of Americans in every single county in the United States think that we should teach children about the causes,...
Image: Piron Guillaume The United States medical industry produces about 8% of climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions. Healthcare providers have long embraced the mandate “do no...
2017 has proven to be a pivotal year in the global human struggle to adequately reduce emissions from heat-trapping gases that fuel climate change. The human and political aspect of this struggle...
Photo: “Station Fire” 8/30/2009 looking east from Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles. Credit: Bruce Leiserowitz California is experiencing a historic wildfire season. Six fires are burning...
Sunrise in Akagera National Park in Eastern Rwanda. Image by Elham Shabahat. Rwanda, 2017. To build a wall to conserve wildlife and deter human disturbance—quite literally, this is the meaning...
This month, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced plans to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era policy to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The Clean Power Plan is the...
Eleven years after the release of the Oscar-winning climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore returned with An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. The follow-up...
President Nixon signing the National Environmental Policy Act (1969) – National Archives The way that climate change has been approached in President Trump’s administration might suggest...
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2017 has so far been the second warmest year in the recorded history of the planet. That means this year will extend the record...