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…

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…

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…

Our Beef With the Climate Negotiations

Raychel Santo, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

Without drastic reductions in global meat and dairy consumption, the most severe and irreversible climate change scenarios will be unavoidable.

No-One Prepared Me For The Migration Situation in Niger

Wagaki Wischnewski, UN Convention to Combat Desertification

I grew up in Kenya, where over 80% of the land is arid or semi-arid. For 10 years in the 1990s, I worked with some of the most marginalized pastoral…

Battling Climate Change With Each Bite: 4 Things To Do If You’re Going Bananas About the Story Behind Your Food

Marcia DeLonge, Union of Concerned Scientists