The ski-equipped Air National Guard LC-130 carried Alana Macken to Greenland nearly a year after the Northern California firestorm roared through her hometown of Santa Rosa in 2017, killing 22 people and destroying more than 5,000 structures. The fires deeply […]

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Saving for retirement pays off. If you deposit money into an IRA, its earnings can grow over time, and so can your nest egg. James Finch is the director of finance for Branford, Connecticut. He says as cities and towns […]

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It was a grim day in Moscow on July 25, 2010. The English-language Moscow Times reported that the Russian capital had broken the 1936 temperature record for July: 98 degrees Fahrenheit. That month, the city, where air conditioning was (and […]

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To avoid the worst consequences of global warming, the world urgently needs to cut carbon pollution. But cutting pollution from the world’s energy system takes time, so some suggest that we also need to consider geoengineering the climate to cool […]

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Wilson “Woody” Powell served in the Air Force during the Korean war. But in the decades since, he’s become staunchly anti-war. Through the group Veterans for Peace, Powell has spoken out against conflicts, sought justice for civilian victims, and mentored […]

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Set a little over a century from now, Kassandra Montag’s After the Flood depicts an earth completely transformed by climate change and rising seas. The overflowing oceans first devastated the coastal cities and then the middle parts of continents, leaving […]

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Twenty years ago, Shawn and Beth Dougherty had trouble finding land to farm, so they bought a plot that was designated by the state of Ohio as unsuitable for agriculture. “And we just had to set about disproving that,” Beth […]

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Climate change can make people sick, and it can even be deadly. “Our warming planet is putting millions of us at risk for heat-related illness and even death,” says Kim Knowlton of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “That heat contributes […]

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My articles for Yale Climate Connections have focused on steps various sectors might take to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. The first series dealt with personal or individual actions, the second with governmental actions. Each […]

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  Q: Does it matter what we do to limit climate change? And if so, will it make just a little difference, or a lot? A: The difference is huge, as this pair of graphics illustrates especially vividly: For the […]

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