The Southwest region encompasses diverse ecosystems, cultures, and economies, reflecting a broad range of climate conditions, including the hottest and driest climate in the United States. Water for people and nature in the Southwest region has declined during droughts, due in part to human-caused climate change. Higher temperatures intensified the recent severe drought in California […]
Life After Warming: The Green New Deal Isn’t Enough. But Democrats Should Embrace It Anyway.
By David Wallace-Wells Finally, we have a serious American response to the existential threat of climate change. It is, which should shame us to say, the country’s first. The Green New Deal is not perfect. It is, as my colleague Jonathan Chait points out, a resolution rather than a bill, which means it’s effectively a […]
Shell acquisition of charging network Greenlots points to juice as the new gas
Electric cars are getting the attention of oil companies. On Wednesday, one of the largest fast-charging networks in the U.S., Greenlots, announced that it had been bought by oil giant Royal Dutch Shell—via the subsidiary Shell New Energies US LLC. Greenlots includes more than 350 mainly DC fast charge stations across the U.S., the kind electric […]
Life After Warming: The Cautious Case for Climate Optimism
By David Wallace-Wells It’s not too late. In fact, it never will be. Whatever you may have read over the past year — as extreme weather brought a global heat wave and unprecedented wildfires burned through 1.6 million California acres and newspaper headlines declared, “Climate Change Is Here” — global warming is not binary. It […]
NCA 4: Hawai‘i and U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands
The U.S. Pacific Islands are culturally and environmentally diverse, treasured by the 1.9 million people who call them home. Pacific islands are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts due to their exposure and isolation, small size, low elevation (in the case of atolls), and concentration of infrastructure and economy along the coasts. A prevalent cause […]
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