By Andrew Curry | SlateIt’s been a long, dark winter in Germany.In fact, there hasn’t been this little sun since people started tracking such things back in the early 1950s. Easter is around the corner, and the streets of Berlin are still co

Climate change moves to forefront after inauguration

Jan 22nd, 2013

By Suzanne Goldenberg, The GuardianBarack Obama said more about climate change in his inauguration speech – and expressed it more forcefully – than he did at any point in the 2012 election campaign and during much of his first term.y16i/Flick

Learning from Sandy

Jan 14th, 2013

Floodwaters surged into the Manhattan entrance to the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel during Hurricane Sandy. Photo: Jay Fine/FlickrBy Eric Jaffe, Atlantic Cities | January 14, 2013From a behavioral perspective, the hardest thing about adapting to the s

Debunking the denial

Jan 14th, 2013

By Phil Plait, Slate | Jan. 14, 2013The difficulties in debunking blatant antireality are legion. You can make up any old nonsense and state it in a few seconds, but it takes much longer to show why it’s wrong and how things really are.Th

Climate change aid fails to materialize

Nov 26th, 2012

By John Vidal | The GuardianWealthy countries have not only failed to provide cash to help poor people adapt to climate change, but much of what they have agreed to give so far has come out of existing aid budgets or in the form of loans that

Hundreds protest pipeline

Nov 19th, 2012

By Reuters, via The GuardianHundreds of people who say they worry oil that would be carried by the Keystone XL pipeline will accelerate climate change marched around the White House on Sunday, hoping to revive a movement credited with slowing

Growing costs of natural disasters

Nov 14th, 2012

Edward Tenner, The AtlanticAs thousands of survivors of Superstorm Sandy still are unable to return to their homes and others remain without power, debate over public response is growing. Does the Federal flood insurance program need reform?W

Video: After Sandy, picking up the pieces in Breezy Point

Oct 31st, 2012

By James West, Tim McDonnell, and Brett Brownell | Tue Oct. 30, 2012“I think we all can agree we’re seeing complete and utter devastation,” Brendan Gallagher says, standing in front of the charred remains of his childhood home.Just a short d

Can Hurricane Sandy swing the election?

Oct 31st, 2012

By Adam Serwer, Mother Jones | Oct. 29, 2012Hurricane Sandy, which is barreling towards America’s East Coast, is epic in scale—according to the National Weather Service, the storm reaches from Florida to Connecticut. But public safety problems

Hurricane Sandy: A disaster foretold?

Oct 30th, 2012

By Chris Mooney | Tuesday, October 30, 2012In 2007, I published a book called Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming. It was inspired by what my family had been through in Hurricane Katrina (I’m from New Orleans)

Wind industry clamors for tax credit renewal

Oct 17th, 2012

By Tim McDonnell | October 2, 2012Jacob Susman is frustrated again.Sitting in the bright green conference room of his company’s trendy industrial office, overshadowed by the Brooklyn Bridge, he’s a clean-cut poster child for the “green econom

Are swing voters going green?

Oct 11th, 2012

By Chris Mooney | October 2, 2012It was quite the messaging turnaround.In his September 6 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, President Obama—whose reticence about so much as mentioning global warming has fl

Audio: Does Punxsutawney Phil believe in climate change?

Feb 2nd, 2011

Punxsutawney Phil and handler John Griffiths in 2009. Photo: AP Photo/Carolyn KasterClimate scientists have for years complained of their inability to educate the public about the dangers of global warming.Maybe they can learn a thing or two

Was the Roman Empire a victim of climate change?

Jan 26th, 2011

Is the decline of the Roman empire partially attributable to climate change? A new study published in the journal Science suggests it might be, and the researchers behind the study are quick to hint that their findings could prove a fitting cau

‘A History of the Future’: Capturing the world to come

Jan 24th, 2011

In just 50 years Qin Tu Hu Lake in China has become a desert. Photo: Susannah Sayler, Canary Project Five years ago, photographer Susannah Sayler set out to artistically render the future. Specifically, the environmental warnings against what

Audio: What does the Bible have to say about climate change?

Dec 22nd, 2010 22m 34s

With the collapse of last year’s international climate talks in Copenhagen and the resurgence of the Republican Party here in the United States, many observers have begun to doubt whether the world will ever be able to agree on a framework to

Audio: WikiLeaks and climate change

Dec 11th, 2010

The U.S. embassy cables released by the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks have rattled diplomats across the globe, revealing an unvarnished look at U.S. foreign policy on a number of issues, from Iran’s nuclear program to relations with Chin

Turkey can be climate friendly; spinach, not so much

Nov 24th, 2010 21m 24s

With Thanksgiving approaching and Christmas just around the corner, we here at the Climate Desk thought it would be a good time to take a hard look at how our food system is effecting the climate, and how climate change might impact the futur

Audio: In India, a climate of power

Nov 16th, 2010

President Barack Obama toasts India's President Prathiba Patil at a state dinner at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, India last week. Photo: AP/Charles DharapakIndia, one of the world’s emerging powers, is also a country of endemic poverty

Audio: Political climate change

Nov 10th, 2010

The shifting political winds in Washington may have a far-reaching impact on a wide range of issues: health care, tax cuts, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.But what about climate change?Photo: Tanya ImpeartriceVery little was said about glo