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The National Climate Assessment, an ongoing project to review the nation’s climate change preparedness, has been the subject of attacks by the current administration, which dismissed hundreds of scientists working […]

Multiple states, including New York and Vermont, have passed or are preparing Climate Change Superfund Acts, legislation which requires fossil fuel companies to pay into a fund to defray the […]

In Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, the story begins during an extreme heat wave in India. Temperatures and humidity, together known as “wet bulb […]

Trade-offs: they’re unavoidable. As the world attempts to wean itself off its 100-year-long fossil fuel high, a new challenge arises. Batteries, solar panels and wind turbines all require mined materials […]

One of the commodities the US imports from Canada is clean electricity generated by hydropower, and states that are closest to the border, like New York and Minnesota, have entered […]

If we lived in a more reasonable- some might say more sane- world, the need to adapt to a warming world would not be a political issue. Alas, we are […]

If there’s one thing that was made crystal clear this week, it’s that the new federal government is going to be hostile to renewable energy, despite all its obvious benefits. […]

On Monday, City Limits published this Op-Ed by Solar One Senior Policy Manager Kate Selden and Cooper Square Committee’s Resiliency Coordinator and Housing Organizer Alex Lee, encouraging the expansion of […]

What happens when dry weather is closely followed by wet weather, which is then closely followed by windy weather? Devastating wildfires like the ones raging through neighborhoods in and around […]

In November, government leaders convened in Azerbaijan for COP 29, the international climate conference where the world’s nations are supposed to be applying themselves to addressing the climate crisis. As […]