Extreme heat, flooding, wildfires – Colorado’s formerly incarcerated people on the hazards they faced behind bars

More than 65% of formerly incarcerated people reported experiencing climate-related hazards, according to survey results.

Shideh Dashti, Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder • conversation
Jan. 22, 2025 ~8 min

How the oil industry and growing political divides turned climate change into a partisan issue

The climate policy pendulum is swinging back again with Trump in office. Money, lobbying and talking about red vs. blue states all play a role in the political and public divide.

Joe Árvai, Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability | Professor of Psychology, Biological Sciences, and Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences • conversation
Jan. 22, 2025 ~12 min


Five ways to cut emissions from shipping

Shipping produces roughly the same amount of emissions as aviation, yet it is often overlooked. It’s time for change.

Guy Collender, Post Doctoral Senior Research Associate, Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures, University of Portsmouth • conversation
Jan. 22, 2025 ~8 min

Toward sustainable decarbonization of aviation in Latin America

Special report describes targets for advancing technologically feasible and economically viable strategies.

Mark Dwortzan | Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy • mit
Jan. 21, 2025 ~6 min

The rise of firefighters-for-hire exposes the inequality of climate-driven disasters

Private firefighters in affluent LA neighbourhoods are a sign of an increasingly privatised response to disasters.

Doug Specht, Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication, University of Westminster • conversation
Jan. 21, 2025 ~7 min

Kyoto: timely and enthralling play about first climate treaty reveals potent power of consensus

With a climate change denier as US president, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s politics-as-glossy-spectacle could not be more on point.

Steve Waters, Professor of scriptwriting and playwright, University of East Anglia • conversation
Jan. 21, 2025 ~6 min

LA fires risk reinforcing the false idea that we’re all in this together

What celebrities and the super-rich losing their homes reveals about climate change injustice.

Andrea Rigon, Professor, Politecnico di Milano, and, UCL • conversation
Jan. 20, 2025 ~5 min

We built an AI model that analysed millions of images of retreating glaciers – what it found is alarming

Scientists have tracked decades of glacier retreat in the fast-warming Arctic islands of Svalbard.

Konrad Heidler, Chair of Data Science in Earth Observation, Technical University of Munich • conversation
Jan. 17, 2025 ~7 min


Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse

Meta’s decision could open the floodgates to more climate misinformation on its apps, including misleading or out-of-context claims during disasters.

Jill Hopke, Associate Professor of Journalism, DePaul University • conversation
Jan. 17, 2025 ~8 min

How America courted increasingly destructive wildfires − and what that means for protecting homes today

In many parts of the US, Americans must learn to live with fire. That means careful decisions on where homes are built and what’s around them, and allowing more low-risk fires to burn.

Justin Angle, Professor of Marketing, University of Montana • conversation
Jan. 16, 2025 ~11 min

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