Climate Change

Our experts write on the science and impacts of global warming—and explore the solutions we have at hand.

Derrick Z. Jackson

August 11, 2022

A Visit to a Remote Maine Island Finds Puffins and Terns are Having a Good Year Despite Climate Change

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

AP Photo/David Goldman

August 10, 2022

Ask a Scientist: ‘Danger Season’ Summers Disproportionately Harm Disadvantaged Communities

Elliott Negin
Senior Writer

a world map with a bunch of Scrabble tiles on it. the visible letters spell out "HOPE"

Dayne Topkin/Unsplash

August 10, 2022

A Bright Moment of Hope with Historic US Climate Bill

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Sean Boyd/Unsplash

August 2, 2022

Even at a 40-percent Electric Fleet, USPS is Missing the Mailbox

Sam Wilson
Senior Vehicles Analyst

LANCE CHEUNG/USDA

August 2, 2022

Why I Have Renewed Hope for Climate Action on Farms

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

A Nikola electric truck crosses the Queensway Bay Bridge in Long Beach, California

Nikola Newsroom

August 2, 2022

Congress Considers First-Ever Purchase Incentive for Commercial EVs

Sam Wilson
Senior Vehicles Analyst

DENNIS SCHROEDER/NREL

July 29, 2022

Why is Congress’s Climate Breakthrough Such a Big Deal? Because Without It, We’d Be Irreparably Off Course.

Julie McNamara
Senior Energy Analyst

black-and-white photo of people on a New York City street holding signs, one of which reads "Big Oil Makes a Killing"

Leo London/Flickr

July 29, 2022

Dear Oil and Gas CEOs: Here’s How You Should Spend Those Record Profits

Laura Peterson
Corporate Analyst & Advocate

kids on a hot day in the city

AP Photo/Daily News, Miranda Pederson

July 27, 2022

Governor Baker, Please Sign the Massachusetts Climate and Energy Bill

Paula Garcia
Senior Bilingual Energy Analyst

California farmland seen under a hazy sky

Levi Meir Clancy/Unsplash

July 26, 2022

Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley

Carly Phillips
Fellow

Pok Rie/StockSnap

July 21, 2022

Midwest Transmission System Investments Will Be a Game Changer for a Clean Energy Future

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

July 18, 2022

Massachusetts Needs Ambition: In the Wake of W.V. v. EPA, What One State Can Do

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

Ben Stansall/Getty Images

July 15, 2022

Manchin to Climate: Drop Dead.

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

Nick Roberts, US Dept. of Interior/CC BY-SA 2.0

July 13, 2022

Danger Season Heat Is on–It’s Past Time to Act

Alicia Race
Senior Campaign Coordinator

Heatwave. Maggie Lin Photography/CC BY-ND 2.0

July 12, 2022

With Climate Change, Nights Are Warming Faster than Days. Why?

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

A photo taken of marchers at the Poor People's Campaign Assembly and Moral March in June, in Washington, D.C. A banner reads "We won't be silent anymore"

Denise Duffield

July 11, 2022

Finding Science, Faith, Hope, and Unity with the Poor People’s Campaign

Johanna Chao Kreilick
President

Wikimedia Commons

July 3, 2022

The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Is a Blow to Stopping Climate Change

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

July 1, 2022

The Profound Climate Implications of Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision

Julie McNamara
Senior Energy Analyst

Joe Ravi/CC-BY-SA 3.0

June 30, 2022

Science Shows US Supreme Court Abortion, Guns, Environment Rulings Will Have Devastating Consequences

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

June 28, 2022

En EE. UU., el verano es ahora ‘la temporada de peligro.’ Entérese del porqué.

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

Connor Betts/Unsplash

June 24, 2022

What Firefighters Can Teach Us about Preparing the Grid for Extreme Weather

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

A scene of destruction in Bowling Green, KY, with a pile of rubble including a couch in the foreground, and a destroyed home in the background

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Flickr

June 16, 2022

Lingering Climate Injustice in Bowling Green, KY

Alicia Race
Senior Campaign Coordinator

A pastoral scene of some hay bales and a scrubby tree against a flat field, with an ominous looking tornado-like cloud gathering overhead.

Raychel Sanner/Pexels

June 16, 2022

What Danger Season Looks Like in the Midwest

Rachel Licker
Principal Climate Scientist

A person in the foreground carries a sign reading "Solar Power to the People" at a demonstration on the Pacific Coast highway during People's Climate March protest for the environment in the Wilmington neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. The march, which specifically protested the expansion of a Tesoro refinery, was held in a heavily industrialized neighborhood and was led by environmental leaders from indigenous and minority communities.

Andrew Cullen/REUTERS

June 13, 2022

Do We Really Need New Technology to Fight Climate Change?

Johanna Chao Kreilick
President