Wind Power Is (Finally) Having a Moment
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
A surge in offshore wind projects has helped make wind power a renewable force.
Biodiversity Solutions Also Fight Climate Change
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
It’s not possible, after all, to tackle one crisis without addressing the other. To fight climate change, we need fully functioning ecosystems with healthy populations of native plants and animals.
Why We Need Slow Solutions to Solve Our Water Problems
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
But the really empowering thing about Slow Water is that there are things that you can do to protect yourself from flood and drought as a city, as a region, as a watershed. It’s not easy, right?
Dam Accounting: Taking Stock of Methane Emissions From Reservoirs
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
Mounting studies highlight greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs, and now a coalition of environmental groups has called for regulatory action.
Hope for Coral Reefs
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
These corals — their lives, their futures — will be decided just a few miles away up on land by people sitting in these convention halls. Richard wants to take the people from that meeting out onto this reef to say, “This is literally what’s at stake here.”
The Boreal Forests Have a Warning for Us
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
Treeline, a new book by Ben Rawlence, explains how climate change is causing far-reaching shifts in one of our most important ecosystems.
A Historic Chance to Protect America’s Free-Flowing Rivers
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
Ten bills in Congress would add conservation protections to 7,000 miles of river to safeguard drinking water, biodiversity and recreation.
Why Words Matter in the Fight Against Climate Change
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
We shouldn’t be trying to bring on board the people who’re not already on board. Instead we should be trying to activate the vast majority of people who’re already concerned or even alarmed about the climate crisis but haven’t yet started exerting political pressure on their workplaces or on their government.