Climate Change

The Trump administration this weekend announced it has disbanded the Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment, the 15-person panel responsible for long-term climate-change planning. The committee’s responsibilities include the National Climate Assessment, next due for publication in 2018. NOAA told the Washington Post on Saturday that the updated assessment would not be affected by the committee’s dismissal, although the report has already been a hot-button topic inside the administration. 

Climate change isn't a temporary fad, and it isn't going away.

Improving stability and overall standards will help infrastructure to survive disruptive events.

The author of the Southern Reach Trilogy and “Borne” examines “life in the broken places.”

This month brings books about killer fires, strange birds and wicked bugs.

We’ll use 1.7 Earths’ worth of resources this year. Can six pledges make a difference?

A stunning new report reveals that utilities knew about the potential dangers of climate change nearly 50 years ago. Scientists first warned the electric utility industry about CO2 emissions back in 1968, according to a report from the watchdog Energy & Policy Institute. Then, during the 1970s and 1980s, utilities actually sponsored what the watchdog agency calls “cutting edge” climate-change research. Knowing that this could cause a shift away from fossil fuels, some utilities started a disinformation campaign against climate change, something that some industry players continue to do today. 

Director Jeff Orlowski’s documentary "Chasing Coral" is visual evidence from the front lines of a planet falling apart.

Angry messages to the Trump-supporting mayor of Tangier Island illustrate a need to listen, not to shout.

We need to solve runaway human population growth if we hope to fix any other environmental problems.