Supporters of climate litigation are paying close attention to a federal suit filed in Eugene, Oregon. My former classmate Kelsey Juliana is the lead plaintiff among a group of 21 youths who allege that the federal government has violated the [...]

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Summer brings sunshine, shorts, and sandals to the northern U.S. It’s wonderful to get outside, but a hidden danger lurks: disease-carrying ticks. In the ’80s, about 1,500 cases of Lyme disease were reported annually in the U.S. Currently, the average [...]

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President Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement dramatically changes the landscape for communicating climate change, disrupting the international accord but also unifying and energizing national and international opposition to his efforts to downplay climate change. How [...]

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On residential streets in Orlando, Florida, where green grass once grew, some lawns have been replaced by neat rows of kale and baby lettuce. Castro: “Essentially, it started out by this concept of growing food not lawns.” That’s Chris Castro, [...]

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Bicycles are an eco-friendly way to get around. But many people do not know how to ride a bike, and some people cannot afford one. So an organization in San Francisco’s Excelsior neighborhood came up with a solution. Twice a [...]

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Each week, Jennifer Morse of the University of Colorado Mountain Research Station ventures high in the Colorado Rockies to a place called Niwot Ridge. She often makes the trip on skis, and after the first few miles, it can get [...]

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Cli-fi, or climate fiction, is a genre of fiction that transforms climate science into human stories. The genre’s authors explore what it means to be human in a world beset by warming temperatures, intense storms, and rising seas, and they speculate on how [...]

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In Aaron Thier’s novel Mr. Eternity (recently released in paperback), an ancient and beguiling figure known as Old Dan lives nearly a thousand years, from the 1500s to the 2500s. During that time, sea levels rise, the climate warms, the [...]

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Illinois recently passed a sweeping new energy law that includes a program to help low-income people tap the benefits of solar energy. Pino: “It will fund incentives for rooftop solar projects in low-income communities. It will fund community solar projects [...]

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Most kids learn about carbon pollution and sea-level rise in an earth or environmental science class. But for students at Choate Rosemary Hall High School in Connecticut, learning about climate change doesn’t stop there. Siperstein: “I truly think it needs [...]

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