Can We Slash Carbon Emissions and Still Have Economic Growth?
Ying Tang/NurPhoto/Zuma This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For nearly 200 years, two transformative global forces have grown in tandem: economic activity and carbon emissions. The two have long been paired together, or, in economist-speak, “coupled.” When the economy has gotten bigger, so has our climate footprint. This…
States and Tribes Scramble for a Colorado River Pact Before Election Day
The Colorado RiverRJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There are three main forces driving the conflict on the Colorado River. The first is an outdated legal system that guarantees more water to seven Western states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—than…
Climate Disasters Are Leaving Some Poor Nations in a Crushing Cycle of Debt
A destroyed home in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian.Roger Edelman/ZUMA This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new UN report sheds light on how climate change is driving some climate-vulnerable nations deeper into debt, locking them into unsustainable cycles of economic crisis and hampering their governments’…
ExxonMobil CEO Blames Climate Crisis on the Public, Stirring Outrage
Darren Woods, Chief Executive Officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation, speaks to Daniel Yergin during a CERAWeek panel in March 2023.Reginald Mathalone / ZUMA This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world is off track to meet its climate goals and the public is to…
Study Calls US Infrastructure Spending a “Climate Time Bomb”
An aerial view of the Interstate 4 and State Road 408 interchange in downtown Orlando.Paul Hennessy/ZUMA This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Roads, roads, and more roads. The US is continuing to spend billions of dollars on expanding enormous highways rather than…
GAO Report Warns Climate Change Could Unearth US Nuclear Waste
U.S. military officers watch nuclear waste being dumped on Runit Island in the Marshall Islands. Department of Defense This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaiʻi in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a man…