To the people of Kiribati, climate change is an existential threat. This is an Island nation in the pacific — it is a string of atolls about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It has a population of about 100,000 and...
As wildfires raged in the Western United States this month, southern Europe was experiencing an intense wildfire season of its own. Last week, one tore through Portugal and northern Spain, killing at least 40 people and threatening cities. Thousands of firefighters, and...
Something is very wrong on our planet’s poles. Temperatures soared in the Arctic over the weekend as the storm system that brought snow and freezing rain to the US’s east coast this week pushed warm air into the Arctic. Scientists...
The G20 is going to be all about the Paris Agreement. And that will make for some potentially very isolating moments for the United States. When Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement last month, leaders worldwide warned...
A meeting among President Donald Trump’s senior advisors to figure out the administration’s stance on the Paris Agreement is reportedly back on after an earlier one was called off. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner, National Economic...
Speaking at Georgetown University in Washington, DC earlier this week, Patricia Espinosa, the head of the UN’s climate change program, expressed hope that the US would still cooperate with international efforts to minimize global warming. “One of the reasons that...
The US is a month into Donald Trump’s presidency, with at least 47 more to go. His cabinet appointees have largely been confirmed, and they’re beginning to come into contact with their foreign counterparts. In several of these meetings, climate...
First, the bad news: The US is very important to the Paris Agreement. If Donald Trump chooses not to enforce Obama’s climate policies, there is very little chance the world will be able to contain global warming to 2 degrees...
2016 was a historic year in the world’s struggle to address climate change. The fine details of the Paris Agreement were hammered out, and, in November, it went into effect. Just days later, Donald Trump was elected president of the...
