Tons of Promises Were Made at Jerry Brown’s Climate Summit, But Only One Requires Rockets
California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks as Michael Bloomberg, left, listens during a news conference at the Global Action Climate Summit Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018.Eric Risberg/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California’s Governor Jerry Brown, once nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam,” announced on Friday that the state was launching its own satellite, a…
The Key to Saving the Planet Could Be This Middle-School Math Concept
VCG via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A scientist and a diplomat walked into the Global Climate Action Summit on Thursday and unveiled a roadmap for keeping the world at a low simmer. Things look…
Hurricane Florence Is Absolutely Soaking the Carolinas—and It’s a Harbinger of Storms to Come
Flood waters from the Trent River inundate a park in Pollocksville, North Carolina after Hurricane Florence made landfall on September 14. Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina Friday, significantly raising sea levels in the Outer Banks and creating a “life-threatening inland…
This Nuclear Power Plant Is Designed Like Fukushima—and Florence Is Heading Straight for It
Rolf Schulten/ullstein bild via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On March 11, 2011, a one-two, earthquake-tsunami punch knocked out the safety systems at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, triggering an explosion of hydrogen gas and meltdowns…
Climate Summit Protesters Want Policies That Don’t Leave Marginalized Groups Behind
Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An international collection of delegates in suits filed into San Francisco’s Moscone Center Thursday morning to take action on climate change. They had assembled, in part, in defiance of…
The Biggest Marine Corps Base on the East Coast Is Right in Florence’s Path—and Won’t Evacuate
John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than 1 million people were ordered to evacuate their homes this week in advance of one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the East Coast in over a decade. Among those evacuees are thousands of US military personnel across four…