The Untold Story About the End of Coal

David Crane, Pegasus

Just a decade ago, coal was flying high.

Buoyed by high natural gas prices, with climate change but a distant concern to the hyper-myopic power industry, our singular focus at NRG was…

The Big Blue Elephant in the Room

Dr. Sylvia A. Earle & John Bridgelan

Although the recent UN General Assembly meetings in New York City included the largest gathering of world leaders ever to address climate change, the largest factor in our climate cycle was missing from the…

Can Your Diet Help Keep Climate Change at Bay?

Peter Lehner, Earthjustice

Every single one of us has an opportunity to take climate action, and it comes up about three times a day. (No, I’m not talking about social media, although that might be true!) I’m talking about…

Consumer Energy Alliance, Group Behind Fraudulent Petitions and Letters Signed by Dead People, Releases Anti-Solar Report

David Pomerantz, Energy and Policy Institute

Fear Is Not Our Friend

Michael Brune, Sierra Club

I have a hunch that when the history of our response to the climate crisis is written someday, it will be divided into before and after last year’s UN climate change conference. Since negotiators in Paris reached an international…

Schooling Trump on Climate Change

David Hastings, Eckerd College

As a marine scientist living and working in Florida, I am very familiar with the huge risks that Florida faces in a warming world. Our coral reefs are bleaching, and the entire ocean’s ecosystem is under attack in…

Republicans, Climate Champions? Absolutely.

Flannery Keck, Citizens’ Climate Lobby

On Wednesday night, the newest Years of Living Dangerously episode confronted a tough question head on: How do we get Republicans to act on climate change? Not only is that a tough…

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Dr. Jeffrey Donnelly, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

In the time since we wrapped our episode of Years of Living Dangerously with Ian Somerhalder, my team has had a chance to take a closer look at the cores we collected on the show. And what…

Missing in Florida — Where are the Solar Panels

Alissa Jean Schafer, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

Florida…spring break destination, over 1,000 miles of gorgeous shoreline, and national punch-line of countless jokes on topics ranging from stupid criminals to…