Methane Detectives: Can a Wave of Technology Slash Natural Gas Leaks?
A rig drills for natural gas, framed by the cliffs of the Roan Plateau. Steven D Starr/Getty This story was originally published by Yale Environment360 and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Driving along County Road 28 south of Platteville, the signs of Colorado’s oil and gas boom are everywhere you look. Storage tanks…
Unplugging PG&E Is Easier Said Than Done
Firefighters battle the Kincade Fire in Healdsburg in October 2019.Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images As California finally takes control of the fires that have been burning for weeks, PG&E is—and will continue to be—in the hot seat. It seems likely that transmission equipment from the utility, which supplies power for roughly 40 percent of Californians, sparked…
Scientists Warn of “Untold Human Suffering” Without Major Climate Action
Alberto Pezzali/Zuma Forty years after scientists at the First World Climate Conference in Geneva, Switzerland called on world governments to curb global warming for the good of humanity, 11,000 scientists from 153 countries have declared that we have entered a climate emergency. The world will endure “untold human suffering” if humans don’t dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions,…
Why We Teamed Up With the Weather Channel to Bring You a Different Kind of 2020 Climate Debate
The Weather Channel Over the summer, the Democratic National Committee rejected calls to focus one of its dozen formal debates on the single issue of climate change. The outrage and disappointment from advocates and candidates was immediate: They argued that what could be considered the most important issue facing any president should not be given…
The Delicate Art and Evolving Science of Wildfire Evacuations
Residents evacuate along Sierra Highway in Canyon Country in the Tick fire in Canyon Country, CA October 24, 2019.David Crane/Getty This story was originally published by Wired and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the evening of October 23, in the middle of the kind of dry, windy night that has become more frequent and…
Trump Just Threatened to Pull Federal Funding From California Over its Handling of Fires. Again.
Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump, and Jerry Brown during the president’s visit of the Camp Fire in Paradise last year.Paul Kitagaki Jr/ZUMA Wire President Donald Trump just threatened to cut off federal funding to California over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “forest management,” which the president blamed for the wildfires that have ripped through wide swaths of the…