Photos: Inside the Raucous, Colorful Protest that Shut Down “Wall Street West”
Leidesdorff Street, a shadowy corridor stretching just three blocks, is hardly the hub of San Francisco’s downtown Financial District. Yet for a few hours on Wednesday morning, a lively climate change protest swept through the alley, turning it into the front line in the fight for divestment—a movement to force big banks and financial institutions…
Arctic Ice Is Melting Faster Than Expected. These Scientists Have a Radical Idea to Save It.
Krista Kahl/Ice911 Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments. A group of researchers have found that millions of these spheres spread in a layer across swaths of Arctic ice…
Rising Seas Aren’t Even the Scariest Part of Climate Change in the Oceans
Mlenny, Getty Climate change has already taken an irreversible toll on our oceans and frozen places, warns a major new report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Much of the carbon pollution we’ve pumped into the air has gone directly into the world’s seas: They have absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat from the…
World Leaders Are Gathering for a UN Climate Summit Today
Album/ZUMA This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world may have hit a hopeful “turning point” in the struggle to tackle the climate crisis despite escalating greenhouse gas emissions and the recalcitrance of major emitters Brazil and the US, according to the United Nations secretary general. On Sunday,…
What Do Evangelical Christians Really Think About Climate Change?
Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty This story was originally published by Newsweek and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The vast majority of scientists agree climate change is an existing, growing, and man-made threat to our planet. And yet the topic is a divisive issue in the US—not least among people of faith. White evangelical Christians…
How Burning More Wood Could Fight California’s Wildfires
Justin Sullivan/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Slim pine trunks stacked in a mound loomed over my head, curving around me in a partial circle like a dam built by Brontosaurus-sized beavers. I’d followed a long unmarked dirt road earlier this year to see it: One…