Tag: Paris climate accord
UN climate negotiations end on shaky geopolitical ground, but I see...
Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The 2024 United Nations climate talks wrapped up two...
Biden restores roadless protection to the Tongass, North America’s largest rainforest
Beverly Law, Oregon State University
Ask people to find the world’s rainforests on a globe, and most will probably...
Protecting half of the planet is the best way to fight...
Greg Asner, Arizona State University
Humans are dismantling and disrupting natural ecosystems around the globe and changing Earth’s climate. Over the past 50 years, actions...
An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our...
Benjamin Z. Houlton, University of California, Davis
Why has Earth’s climate remained so stable over geological time? The answer just might rock you.
Rocks, particularly the...
The Madrid climate conference’s real failure was not getting a broad...
Robert Stavins, Harvard Kennedy School
Press accounts of the Madrid climate conference that adjourned on Dec. 15 are calling it a failure in the face...
To solve climate change and biodiversity loss, we need a Global...
Greg Asner, Arizona State University
Earth’s cornucopia of life has evolved over 550 million years. Along the way, five mass extinction events have caused serious...
Sea creatures store carbon in the ocean – could protecting them...
Heidi Pearson, University of Alaska Southeast
As the prospect of catastrophic effects from climate change becomes increasingly likely, a search is on for innovative ways...
An Indian perspective on the Poland climate meeting: Not much help...
Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan
The international climate change conference that concluded in Katowice, Poland on Dec. 15 had limited ambitions and expectations – especially...
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Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
