Climate Change

Everyone Has the Right to be Rescued in a Disaster

Jordan Melograna, Right to Be Rescued

Send in the Robots

Glen Gawarkiewicz, WHOI

There was a period in early October when Hurricane Matthew was still in the Caribbean, a category 5 monster, when long-range forecasts indicated the storm could travel up the I-95 corridor from Miami to Boston within a week. If it had, we might…

Winning on Clean Energy, and What Comes Next in Waukegan

Christine Nannicelli, Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign

Last night, many of you met a group of individuals in Waukegan, Illinois who inspire me every day.

New England Without Clam Chowder?

Dr. Hauke Kite-Powell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

It’s hard to envision, standing by the shore, but the chemistry and temperature of the ocean is changing in fundamental ways — and the shellfish we love to eat are at risk. If we don’t…

Reflecting on Years of Living Dangerously

Sarah Spengeman, Catholic Climate Covenant

My husband and I have been tuning in regularly to watch Season Two of Years of Living Dangerously on the National Geographic Channel, and so much of what we have seen this season has hit…

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…

Clean Energy Creates Jobs

Danny Kennedy, California Clean Energy Fund

If you want to create American jobs, it’s hard to beat renewable energy.

In the United States, there are already many more people working in solar energy than in the coal industry — and…

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…

The New Ark

Cassandra Carmichael, National Religious Partnership for the Environment

Most people, particularly Jews and Christians, know the story of Noah and the ark. Noah is tasked by God to build an ark and place animals of every kind — two by two, male and female — on the ark while the…

Vanishing Wildlife on a Warming Planet

Joseph Stewart, University of California, Santa Cruz.

The sun is rising on Donner Summit. The air in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains is cold and still. It’s eerily quiet. I’m waiting — listening for the song of the American pika —…