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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 CoverageThe 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 CoverageSTEM 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 CoverageIn 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 CoverageIt’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 CoverageThe 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 CoverageThe 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 CoverageThe 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 CoverageNew 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 CoverageA 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 CoverageMaybe 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 CoverageDecarbonizing 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 CoverageApocalyptic 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 CoverageHow 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 CoverageA 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 CoverageHumans 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 CoverageThe industry got more than it bargained for when it asked the president to relax regulations
Tagged under: Donald Trump
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