It doesn’t stop at massive droughts and flooded cities One of the difficulties that many climate models face is predicting the future. Environmental scientists collect tons of data, and in some instances can foretell the level of certain gases in the future. Yet, understanding how the world will respond is tricky. Wind patterns, ocean currents, and […]

OnMarch 21, 1995, biologists hired by the U.S. National Park Service released 14 grey wolves into Yellowstone National Park. It was an attempt at addressing a problem that had steadily deteriorated the park’s ecosystem since the 1920s: the overpopulation of elks. The scientists predicted that by reintroducing an apex predator they could trigger a trophic […]

The public’s message to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) at its February 13th public hearing in Washington, DC, was clear: DON’T DRILL THE ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. Gwich’in leaders and other Indigenous voices, faith leaders, veterans, scientists, students, and community members gathered en masse at the only public hearing outside of Alaska on the […]

When my infant son was just one month old, in October of last year, I read the UN climate report that said that we have 12 years to act in order to prevent climate change’s worst effects: pandemics, mass extinctions, mass food shortages and millions of refugees from lands that are no longer arable. What […]

How new technologies are helping organic farms increase their margins—and propelling sustainability into the mainstream In farm country, “climate change” can be a dirty word. Whether you’re standing in a chilly shop in Nebraska, sweltering in a Virginia bean field, or walking a California vineyard, mentioning greenhouse gases or rapidly changing global weather patterns is […]

A major problem that we are being faced with daily is climate change. Climate change can be described as the current problems the Earth is facing like the overuse of fossil fuels and the drought that we have been in since 2011.Think about this, when your drinking water, what do you drink it out of? […]

We should convince the rich that climate remediation is a sure thing and that they better get in on the ground floor We’ve been taking the wrong approach to communicating about climate change. I get that the situation is dire. Really dire. But it goes way beyond the fact that every year is the hottest […]

I was driving to work this morning with Cindy in the passenger seat next to me. I don’t know who she was referring to when she said, “it annoys me that he doesn’t believe in climate change.” I found myself responding, “I don’t believe in climate change either.” Then I stopped to consider whether that’s […]

If the Green New Deal is going to succeed, we will likely need major changes to the country’s energy tax structure; changes that would eliminate big tax cuts and subsidies for the oil and gas industry and instead encourage renewables. Bill’s like Senator Ron Wyden’s Clean Energy for America Act (introduced in 2017–18), could help […]

A couple of years ago, Joe Satran wrote a very insightful article on the Huffington Post about the impact of the coffee industry on the environment. Satran brazenly stated that the industry was worse for the environment than ever before. The good news is that there are lots of new things that are helping out. […]