How Corporations Gave Republicans Permission to Deny Reality
At the 2018 UN climate conference in Poland, visitors could watch a virtual forest degrade on a set of screens – and donate, a display said, to help save it. The installation
Molly Taft
What Climate Change Will Do to Three Major American Cities by 2100
By Nexus Media in collaboration with Teen Vogue Climate change is already here. It’s not something that can simply be ignored by cable news or dismissed by sitting U.S. senators in a
How YouTube Promotes Conspiracy Theories and Climate Change Denial
Chances are, if you’re under 25, you’ve grown up using YouTube as a definitive source for everything from news to makeup tutorials to cooking how-tos. A study conducted last year shows that
Months After a Coal Company’s Sudden Bankruptcy, Workers Are Still Struggling
If you ask her, Peggy Stanley can give you a rough running tally of the money that Blackjewel Mining owes her husband. First, there are the paychecks. One was supposed to be
For Climate Deniers in Power, ‘Ridicule Can Be Tremendously Effective’
It’s been a week since David Karpf first went viral, but he’s hoping his time in the culture war spotlight will soon come to an end. “You can’t really go bigger than
Criminal Justice in the Age of Climate Change
It was long predicted that Houston was unprepared for a hurricane like Harvey, yet the storm caught the city off-guard when it landed a year and a half ago. Hurricane Harvey dawdled
Trump’s Big Coal Backers Paid for a New Tax to Prop up Outdated Energy in Ohio
Thanks to a new law, Ohioans will soon start seeing an extra tax on their electric bills. The monthly price hike will range from 85 cents for private consumers up to around
As the Coal Industry Falls Apart, Miners Face Losing Their Pensions
In June, the Trump administration unveiled one of its largest environmental rollbacks to date: replacing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan rule, which regulated carbon pollution from power plants. The rule had
Electric Flight is the Future of Air Travel
This fall, teen Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will be touring the United States, attending two different climate summits in New York and Brazil to speak with world leaders. But the hardest
GE’s Investment Mistake Could Cost Billions
Last week, General Electric announced it would close a California gas plant 20 years ahead of schedule. The Inland Empire Energy Center in California, the company said, was “uneconomical to support further”
Fossil Fuel Protesters Push a Coal Plant to Become a Solar-Powered Data Center
Lisa Marshall isn’t your typical activist. For one thing, she’s not into crowds and didn't originally see herself among the legion of fossil fuel protesters. “I don’t really like rallies,” Marshall, a
The Climate Rebellion Inside Amazon
When Kathryn Dellinger moved to the Pacific Northwest five years ago to take a position at Amazon, she fretted over friends and relatives back home in Virginia as successive hurricanes tore apart
This Year, Graduating Seniors Will School the Country on Climate Change
In June of 1968, Dartmouth valedictorian James Newton devoted his commencement speech to the foremost issue of his time: the Vietnam war. Calling the conflict a “vast international atrocity,” Newton urged his
Students Are Terrified of Climate Change. Some School Boards Say It’s Too Political to Talk About.
Burning book pages aren’t supposed to rain from the sky. But for students growing up in the age of climate change, it’s now a familiar sight. “Sonoma County kids know that when
Winter Is Coming — But Not For NYC’s Rats
In 2015, a rat dragged a piece of pizza the size of its body down the subway steps in New York City and won the hearts and minds of people across the
Climate Change Is Costing the Air Force Billions
Greg Brudnicki, mayor of Panama City, Florida, has lived in the community for 55 years and said he has never seen a storm like Hurricane Michael. The cyclone barreled through the Florida
How ‘Tropical Trump’ is Harnessing Racism to Destroy the Amazon
If you’ve never heard of Ricardo Salles, it’s helpful to think of him as another version of Scott Pruitt. There’s a lot that the Brazilian environmental minister has in common with the
Critics Say the Green New Deal Is Too Costly. Here’s the Cost of the Status Quo.
To hear the Wall Street Journal columnist Kim Strassel tell it, the Green New Deal would spend trillions of dollars while eliminating jobs, travel, delicious food and family time. The Green New
Red-State Teens Rally for a Green New Deal
Anna Mowery grew up in a world where adults didn’t care about climate change. Her senator, Mitch McConnell (R-KY), a noted climate change denier, took office in 1985, more than 15 years
The Changing Face of Climate Diplomacy
Even though Carla Frisch worked for 10 years at the Department of Energy, she had never been to a UN climate change conference. “I mostly worked on domestic issues,” she said. But
Two Graphs That Explain Why California’s Wildfires Will Only Get Worse
The deadly wildfires ripping through Northern California are just the latest in a season of record-defying natural disasters in the United States. As the death toll passes 40, reports of Californians hiding
‘Chasing Coral’ Brings Dying Reefs to Life (VIDEO)
Richard Vevers was an advertising executive in London with a passion for diving. Then, he witnessed the dramatic effects of coral bleaching at Bali’s Airport Reef. Shocked by what he saw, Vevers
Clouds Over the Sunshine State
This is the third of five installments in a series about clean energy. Imagine you’re packing for a Florida vacation. A swimsuit, shades and a few gallons of sunscreen are probably the
Tar Heel Power Play
Alongside Highway 401 in northern North Carolina is a 21st-century twist on a classic rural scene. A few miles outside of Roxboro, sheep graze among 5,000 panels at the Person County Solar
Scenes From the People’s Climate March
On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency took down its website on climate change. On Saturday, temperatures in Washington, D.C. soared to a record 91 degrees, capping off the hottest April ever recorded
Winds of Change Blow Towards Kansas
When President Trump signed his executive order targeting Obama-era climate policies in March, he made sure to get the optics right. “You’re going back to work,” he promised the coal miners surrounding
Seventy-Six Women on a Glacier Are Changing the World
Heidi Steltzer’s job, as she puts it, is “hiking where no one else will go.” As a mountain and polar ecologist studying rare plants, she’s accustomed to traveling to breathtaking Arctic vistas
Seeds of Greatness (VIDEO)
One gray day in early November, hundreds of mourners gathered at the Presbyterian church in Basking Ridge, New Jersey to celebrate the life of one of the community’s greats. The fallen is