No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response Had we put as much effort into preventing environmental catastrophe as we’ve spent on making excuses for inaction, we would have solved it by now. Everywhere I look, I see people engaged in furious attempts to fend off […]

An unanswered question about Westeros’s past could be the key to really understanding the metaphor everyone assumes the HBO epic is founded upon. I hope that someday I find out what happened to Valyria. There are a lot of other lingering mysteries left in Game of Thrones, the HBO adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s A […]

In an unprecedented public push to change Amazon policies, nearly 4,500 employees have put their names to a letter asking CEO Jeff Bezos and the commerce giant’s board of directors to become global leaders in fighting climate change. The letter, posted online Wednesday, is the latest step up in an internal drive by employees for […]

More than 2.7 million Californians live in areas that are at very high risk for wildfires, according to our analysis of census data and state fire maps. They live in more than 1.1 million housing units, or in about one in 12 of the state’s homes. That’s right: one in 12 homes in California are […]

Inaction would cost at least $500 billion per year by the end of the century. Despite what the world’s least-interesting talking gecko would have you believe, no one likes handing over payments for car insurance. But there’s one thing everyone likes even less: suddenly paying for expensive repairs not covered by your insurance. Similarly, opponents […]

Maybe the Jetsons were climate change activists? A new study shows that the cartoon family was on to something when they used a flying car for transportation. Several companies and even agencies such as NASA have been scrambling to create flying cars, hoping to launch the service in the next decade, and that may be […]

For any investor, measuring opportunity against risk is critical. And for real estate investors in particular, risk is rising exponentially in the age of climate change. To that end, big real estate firms are pouring significant resources into calculating climate risk and its likely effect on property portfolios—everything from increasingly extreme weather to sea-level rise. […]

Earth’s glaciers are melting much faster than scientists thought. A new study shows they are losing 369 billion tons of snow and ice each year, more than half of that in North America. The most comprehensive measurement of glaciers worldwide found that thousands of inland masses of snow compressed into ice are shrinking 18 percent […]

Revealed: federal support to research centers cut off as scientists fear years of successful work will go ‘down the drain’ Scientists and officials around the US have told the Guardian that the Trump administration has withdrawn funding for a large, successful conservation program – in direct contradiction of instructions from Congress. Unique in scale and […]

Climate and ecological crises can be tackled by restoring forests and other valuable ecosystems, say scientists and activists The world faces two existential crises, developing with terrifying speed: climate breakdown and ecological breakdown. Neither is being addressed with the urgency needed to prevent our life-support systems from spiralling into collapse. We are writing to champion […]