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We Just Lived Through Two of the Hottest Days Ever. Does Anyone Care?

  2024-07-26 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

The climate crisis is cooking the planet faster than we ever imagined, and extreme heat is killing us. What will it take to shake us into action?


How the Oil and Gas Industry Smuggles Corporate Propaganda Into Schools

  2024-05-05 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

STEM lesson plans from Discovery Education provide an efficient model for oil and gas companies to indoctrinate children.

  Tagged under: Children | Women and Children


The Climate Crisis Could Mean the Twilight of the American West

  2023-09-03 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

In an excerpt from his book River Notes, leading anthropologist Wade Davis recalls how the taming of the Colorado River in the 1960s — ‘nature serves man’ went the thinking — helped sha…

  Tagged under: Rivers | Colorado River | California


This Simple Math Problem Could Be the Key to Solving Our Climate Crisis

  2023-04-02 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

It’s our last shot to save the planet, and these are the numbers that could change the end of the story

  Tagged under: Climate Change


Biden Says Generation 'Damned' If We Don't Fix Climate Change, Also Approves Willow Oil Drilling Project

  2023-03-14 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

The president joined guest host Kal Penn on The Daily Show Monday

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Joe Biden


Biden Didn't Fight Big Oil. Democrats Are About to Pay for It

  2022-11-03 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

The president’s spectacular success on climate is in jeopardy because of Big Oil’s ongoing grip of our economy — and our democracy

  Tagged under: Joe Biden


The First Step Toward Saving the Planet Is Ignoring the Economists

  2022-03-04 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

The U.N.’s latest climate report shows that we don’t know how expensive the climate crisis will be, which means cost-benefit analyses weighing how to combat it are pointless

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Economics


'The Fuse Has Been Blown,' and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All

  2021-12-29 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

New data suggests a massive collapse of the ice shelf in as little as five years. “We are dealing with an event that no human has ever witnessed,” says one scientist. “We have no analog…

  Tagged under: Antarctic | Collapse


How Climate Change Is Ushering in a New Pandemic Era

  2020-12-07 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

A warming world is expanding the range of deadly diseases and risking an explosion of new zoonotic pathogens from the likes of bats, mosquitoes, and ticks

  Tagged under: Climate Change


More Than 70 Science and Climate Journalists Challenge Supreme Court Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett

  2020-10-25 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

“Judge Coney Barrett has displayed a profound inability to understand the ecological crisis of our times, and in so doing she enables it.”


Climate Apocalypse Now

  2020-08-27 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

Maybe it’s just a failure of human imagination to understand what is coming

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California


The Green New Deal Is Cheap, Actually

  2020-04-06 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

Decarbonizing will cost trillions of dollars, but it’s an investment that will have big return — for the economy and the environment

  Tagged under: Economics


Are We Thinking About Climate Migration All Wrong?

  2020-03-14 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

Apocalyptic predictions may grab our attention, but they can also stoke xenophobia and miss the full picture of what’s happening on the ground

  Tagged under: Predictions


Planet Plastic

  2020-03-03 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades


Study: Bots Are Fueling Online Climate Science Denialism

  2020-02-21 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

A yet-to-be-published Brown University study found that nearly 40 percent of tweets about ‘fake’ climate science are computer-generated


Can We Survive Extreme Heat?

  2019-08-27 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

Humans have never lived on a planet this hot, and we’re totally unprepared for what’s to come

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather


Greenland Is Melting Away Before Our Eyes

  2019-07-31 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

“I have my fingers crossed for it not being washed away”

  Tagged under: Ice Melting


Not Even Automakers Can Support Trump's Love Affair With Pollution

  2019-06-07 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

The industry got more than it bargained for when it asked the president to relax regulations

  Tagged under: Donald Trump


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