Human Rights & Migration
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Biodiversity & HabitatBuildingsCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Optimism, Opportunism, and Climate Denial Combine as Florida Keeps Building Condos
Florida’s coastal real estate may be poised to deliver a wake-up call on climate change, at a time when sea levels are rising, new ... -
Efficient Water Distribution Would Save 870 Megatons of Carbon by 2050
More efficient water distribution places #71 on the Drawdown list of climate solutions. It could cut atmospheric carbon dioxide by 870 megatons by 2050 ... -
Batteries/StorageCitiesCoalDemand & EfficiencyElectricity GridFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationOceansOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingSolarUnited States
Los Angeles Shifts Billions of Dollars from Gas Plants to Storage, Efficiency, and Solar
Los Angeles is walking away from a plan to spend billions of dollars rebuilding three natural gas power plants along the coast, in what ... -
Green New Deal Comes to Life in Portland Affordable Housing Project
Affordable, green, and employing immigrant Americans, a new housing project in a low-income neighborhood in Portland, Oregon is being cast as an early glimpse ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBuildingsElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsHuman Rights & MigrationJobsPost-Carbon TransitionUnited States
Green New Deal Brings Climate Transition to the Mainstream, Omits Key Issue of Urban Sprawl
With supporters hailing U.S. Democrats’ Green New Deal resolution as a breakthrough and some of its predictable opponents declaring it wildly unrealistic, a handful ... -
CoalEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Security & WarLegal & RegulatoryOil & GasUnited States
U.S. Injunction Demands Halt to New Fossil Infrastructure Until Youth Climate Case is Heard
The 21 youth plaintiffs in the landmark Juliana v. United States are asking a judge for a temporary injunction against new fossil fuel leases ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementForests & DeforestationHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Agencies & StudiesSoil & Natural SequestrationSouth & Central America
UN Fund to Help Peruvian Coffee Growers Combat Land Degradation in Latin America
A group of 2,400 small-hold coffee producers in Peru will be the first beneficiaries of a new United Nations initiative aimed at combatting land ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDemand & EfficiencyDrive to 1.5Electricity GridEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesHuman Rights & MigrationHydroJobsLegal & RegulatoryNational Plans & ResponsesNuclearPost-Carbon TransitionSolarTransitUnited StatesWind
Green New Deal Envisions Net-Zero Emissions in 10 Years Through WWII-Scale Effort
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) released an outline of the Democrats’ Green New Deal yesterday, in the form of a ... -
AsiaChinaDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionFood SecurityHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationHydroIce Loss & Sea Level RiseIndiaInternational Security & WarSevere Storms & Flooding
‘Terrifying Assessment’ Shows Himalayas Losing One-Third of Ice by 2100 in Best-Case GHG Scenario
The Mount Everest area will lose more than half of its ice by 2100 in even the most optimistic greenhouse gas reduction scenario, and ... -
Food SecurityHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesPost-Carbon TransitionSupply Chains & Consumption
Scientists, Doctors, Investors Unified on Need to Rethink Global Diet
Scientists anxious about food insecurity, medical professionals concerned about rising rates of obesity, and investors frustrated by a fast food industry that remains careless ... -
AfricaFood SecurityHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Agencies & StudiesInternational Security & War
‘Game-Changing’ UN Security Council System Would Track Conflicts Inflamed by Climate Change
The United Nations must establish a system to alert the world to regions where conflicts may be inflamed by climate change, several security council ... -
AfricaDrought, Famine & WildfiresFood SecurityForests & DeforestationHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Agencies & StudiesInternational Security & WarSevere Storms & Flooding
Mali’s Armed Conflict, Climate Impacts Represent ‘Multiple Threats, Terribly Tangled’
Climate change-driven temperature increases, drought, flooding, and food shortages are piling in behind an accelerating, years-long armed conflict to make Mali, one of five ...
