If the new United Nations loss and damage fund lives up to the promise of its first full board meeting, it could be a game-changer for climate finance by speeding relief money to areas hit by fossil-fueled global warming disasters like floods, heatwaves and droughts. “The loss and damage fund can b...
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Host Steve Curwood with Jacopo Buongiorno, a professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Half of the zero-emission electricity generated for th...
Earlier this week, a landmark youth climate court case may have been dealt a fatal blow. Originally filed in 2015, Juliana v. United States was brought before a district court in Oregon by a group of plaintiffs—between the ages 8 and 19, at the time—who alleged that the federal government has knowingl...
On a dreary afternoon in January, a geyser of oily water shot over the fence of an oil and gas company in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington, splattering the street, cars and a local coffee shop with petroleum just a block away from Ashley Hernandez’s house. The frightening spectacle was jus...
On Earth Day, President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced $7 billion in federal funds to help low- and middle-income residents and communities in all 50 states gain access to low-cost clean energy under the new Solar for All Program. Despite rising utility rates, or forecasted increase...
Editor’s note: This article, originally published on September 16, 2015, was the first installment of a nine-part investigation called Exxon: The Road Not Taken, now more commonly known as #ExxonKnew, that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2016. The article, and the series...