Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Dubbed the “implementation COP,” COP31 will center on moving the global climate agenda from pledges to real-world progress. But will it become just another hollow chapter in global climate diplomacy?
Climate resilience and adaptation remain largely neglected in UK politics, a glaring omission our proposal aims to address.
We dug through hundreds of organizational filings to find out who wanted one of America’s most important forest protections eliminated.
A movement to reshape the structure of taxation in the U.S. is gaining steam.
In areas around the world, growing opposition to climate action signals a new disruptive wave that researchers call an “urban greenlash,” a backlash against climate plans and policies in cities.
Without Prop. 40 revenues, Californians could face hospital closures, job losses, increased food insecurity, and state budget cuts to public schools, yet tech billionaires are pouring millions into opposing the wealth tax.
The Trump administration’s “restructuring” plans for the Forest Service will torpedo federal capacity to manage national forests, close regional offices, and shutter more than half of its research labs.
New accounts show the oil and gas industry trying to weaken methane reporting while saving the federal emissions system it relies on.
Everyone is now on board with the theory of multipolarity. But now that it’s mainstream that unipolarity is dead, it’s time to ask: is the world actually becoming multipolar?
For several years now, a few Republican lawmakers and their Big Ag allies have pushed federal legislation to effectively preempt, or block, state food safety and animal welfare laws.
To implement an export ban, the president would have to declare an emergency. It’s not hard to see how Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz would be seen as an emergency.
A man who sees a forest as an unswept floor, who calls coal “beautiful,” who believes offshore wind is driving whales insane and making foxes obese, isn’t just someone with unusual opinions about nature. He’s someone who doesn’t understand the natural world on a fundamental level and doesn’t care to.
