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On September 9th, Solar One will be celebrating the Grand Opening of its new Environmental Education Center, nestled in the oasis that is native-plants park, Stuy Cove Park, located on […]

The Senate Finance Committee is trying to kill the renewable energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, and, unsurprisingly, the changes will hit homeowners and small businesses the hardest. The […]

One of the biggest challenges in addressing climate change is illustrated by the “boiling frog” metaphor: A frog sitting in a pot of water that is being heated gradually will […]

Trees play a critical role in the quality of urban life, reducing the urban heat island effect, mitigating air pollution and helping to manage stormwater. Currently, the NYC tree canopy […]

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 […]