Nature Will Help Protect Us From Climate Doom—If We Let It
In Brazil, some farmers are switching from raising cattle to growing cocoa, which has been shown to boost biodiversity there.Paulo Fridman/Bloomberg/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced…
Activist Shareholders Deal a Blow to Top Oil Firms
Imago/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.US oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron have suffered shareholder rebellions from climate activists and disgruntled institutional investors over their failure to set a strategy for a low-carbon future. Exxon failed to…
Richest Nations Vow to Stop Supporting Overseas Coal Production
Jim West/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s richest nations have agreed to end their financial support for coal development…
Fossil Fuel Interests Caught Peddling Propaganda to Schoolchildren
Mother Jones illustration; GraphicaArtis/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Gleb Bahmutov found something strange in his nine-year-old son’s backpack earlier this…
To Really Slash Emissions, We’re Going to Need Electric Airplanes
SE Aeronautics sees this wide-body airliner concept as part of a new generation of “sustainable” aircraft.ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
Greenhouse Emissions Are Messing With the Stratosphere, a New Study Reveals
NASA/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Humanity’s enormous emissions of greenhouse gases are shrinking the stratosphere, a…