By Carolyn Woodruff Science Magazine published an article last month by a team of scientists and public policy researchers examining the economic costs of climate change on each of the 50 U.S. states. Their conclusion? States in the South will suffer more economic...
By Sue Landau There are only two real surprises in Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement: the strength and immediacy of the global counter-reaction, and the prospect that damage to the environment may be outweighed by...
This article was a runner-up in the high school category of News-Decoder’s second essay/reporting contest. By Kate Curry While the United States ponders the domestic implications of Donald Trump’s election victory, the rest of the world is anxious about...
By Sue Landau Just when the world had taken a huge step forward in the life-or-death fight against global warming, a man who has denied climate change was elected U.S. president. Donald Trump’s victory cast a pall over the recent United Nations Climate...
We have technology to avert climate disaster. But do we have the political will? A leading environmentalist is cautiously optimistic we can save the earth. The world has all the technology it needs to prevent rising temperatures from destroying the earth, but...
By Celia Bottger The end of 2015 saw a successful conclusion to the Paris Climate Change Conference. Six weeks later, clouds are already on the horizon. Nearly 200 countries sketched a path in Paris towards global carbon reductions, offering a glimmer of hope that the...
As global negotiators hammer out an unprecedented climate accord in Paris, most Americans don’t believe climate change is a very serious problem. (Flickr/Russell Darling) Severe storms. Extreme precipitation. Melting ice caps. Rising sea levels. Health problems....
By Charlotte Crang If you wander by the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris this week, you will hear the bustle of children at play, giggling teens and the chatter of camera-happy tourists. It’s lovely, until you consider that they are gathered around what was...
Climate negotiators will likely come up with a landmark deal to curb carbon emissions. But it will be just a start — the end of the beginning. A visitor at the Paris climate talks, 1 December 2015 (EPA/Guillaume Horcajuelo) Climate negotiators nearing the middle...
By Nelson Graves A climate conference in Paris could mark a turning point in the fight against global warming even if countries do not commit themselves yet to adequate cuts in carbon emissions, France’s special envoy to the talks said. “Paris marks an...