As Democrats Prep for Debate in Florida, a 17,000-Acre Fire Burns in the Everglades
Wildfires burned in the Florida Everglades in 2007. Now there’s another wildfire in the Everglades, right before the Democratic debates.Marc Serota/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Wednesday, the first Democratic debate will take place in Miami, Florida. The candidates will engage in what is sure to…
Europe’s Once-Mighty Climate Warriors Are Staging a Comeback After Other Leaders Have Failed
Marcel Kusch/picture alliance/Getty This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Traditionally, the European Union—the federation of 28 nations with 512 million inhabitants—has prided itself on being the global front runner in progressive policies on the environment and climate change. It has championed binding CO2 reduction targets in international…
Climate Change Isn’t Only Changing the Course of History, It’s Making History Itself Harder to Study
The Farasan Islands in the Red Sea some 30 miles offshore from Saudi Arabia. Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you like clams, you’re not alone. For the past 164,000 years, people have used shellfish as a food source. We know this thanks to shell…
Seething Senators Call Trump’s Environmental Plans Literally Toxic and “Dangerously off the Rails”
President Trump with EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in 2018.Win McNamee/Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Senate Democrats are charging that the Trump administration has gone “dangerously off the rails,” in failing to implement landmark legislation meant to protect people from toxic chemicals. In…
Armed Extremists Just Escalated Oregon’s Fight Over Climate Legislation
A member of the Three Percent militia in Indiana.Jeremy Hogan/SOPA/ZUMA The Three Percenters’ Oregon chapter has gotten involved in the Oregon standoff between Republican state senators, who fled the state to avoid the passage of cap-and-trade legislation, and the Democratic majority who wanted to put the measure to a vote. The paramilitary group, known for…
The 2020 Democrats are Running on an Outmoded Obama Climate Policy
Robert Nickelsberg, Getty Images All the candidates seeking the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination have offered climate change platforms that share a few basic tenets, yet news outlets seem to ask them the same two questions again and again: Would you rejoin the Paris climate agreement? Would you reinstate Obama-era climate rules, including the Clean Power…