Forests are among nature’s best defenders against climate change – if we could just leave them alone long enough that they can fulfill their destiny as avid carbon consumers. Trees naturally suck carbon dioxide out of the air, a function […]

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In Brooklyn, a neighborhood restaurant called Mettā opened last year. Diners come for meats cooked over a wood fire, pickled vegetables, and cocktails with ingredients like spiced cherry brine and black pepper. But co-owner Henry Moynahan Rich is devoted not […]

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In a lead-up to the 2016 Democratic Party nomination, candidate Bernie Sanders characterized Hillary Clinton’s approach to global warming as slow and bureaucratic. Calling the Paris Agreement “a lot of paper” during a debate broadcast on CNN, he claimed that […]

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Along coastlines, some homes that are currently high and dry could be flooded as seas rise over the next century. The threat may be several decades away, but the real estate market is already responding. Ryan Lewis of the University […]

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New Bedford, Massachusetts was once a busy whaling port. That industry is long gone, but the city is looking seaward again. Morrissey: “Offshore wind may become another very important part of the maritime economy that literally created this city.” New […]

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Anger. Fear. Frustration. Grief. Hopelessness and helplessness. And shame. They’re just some of the wide range of emotions people often feel quite normally and naturally, often subconsciously, when encountering scientists’ explanations of risks posed by a warming climate. But keep […]

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We all know what it’s like to feel despair about our future under climate change. But of course this is a dead-end and paralyzing emotion. How can we best understand our despair, and what can we do with it? Some […]

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The earth’s temperature changes naturally over time. Variations in the planet’s orbit, solar cycles, and volcanic eruptions can all cause periods of warming or cooling. But Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Georgia Tech, says none of these natural causes […]

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Kristen Rigney was ready for rain on her wedding day. Rigney: “I had planned and I had ordered cute umbrellas for the bridesmaids for our photos.” But she did not anticipate the flash flood that struck Ellicott City, Maryland, just […]

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One of the reasons climate change is so hard to even think about – let alone understand fully – is that it manifests in many different ways. We’re seeing some of those manifestations now in the form of wildfires ravaging […]

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