Apr 21 Watch 9:27 Can a tax help cut down greenhouse gas pollution? By PBS News Hour Is making pollution expensive the best way to combat climate change? Economist Yoram Bauman thinks so -- he’s spearheading a campaign for a carbon tax in Seattle. But the proposal is raising opposition, and has brought together some unlikely bedfellows… Continue watching
Apr 21 Washington state's carbon-tax plan, cartoonified By Yoram Bauman In Washington state, a grassroots campaign to tax carbon emissions has gained steam. But how does a carbon tax work? For that, we turn to cartoons. Continue reading
Apr 14 Humans and El Niño partner to set record spike in CO2 pollution By David Biello The world may have seen the last of air with CO2 levels below 400 parts per million… Continue reading
Apr 08 NASA: Earth's poles are tipping thanks to climate change By Shannon Hall, Scientific American Melting ice and shifting rain patterns are causing the north and south poles to drift. Continue reading
Mar 31 Sea levels may surge twice as fast as originally thought thanks to Antarctica By Erik Andersen Rising sea levels are more threatening than originally believed, according to a new study on Antarctic glaciers in the journal Nature. Continue reading
Mar 31 U.S., China to join Paris climate deal this year By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The United States and China will sign the global climate agreement next month and intend to start putting it in place later this year, the White House said Thursday. Continue reading
Mar 18 This February was the hottest month in recorded history By Dominique Bonessi February 2016 was hot, really hot. So hot, climate scientists could not find the superlatives to describe February 2016’s record breaking temperature. Continue reading
Mar 17 Rising sea levels force U.S. to resettle Native American tribe By Erik Andersen A Native American tribe located in the coastal Louisiana will become the first community in U.S. history to be relocated due, in part, to rising sea levels, said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, on… Continue reading
Mar 17 A major contributor to the Syrian conflict? Climate change By Vikram Mansharamani Starting in 2006, Syria suffered its worst drought in 900 years; it ruined farms, forced as many as 1.5 million rural denizens to crowd into cities alongside Iraqi refugees and decimated the country’s livestock. Water became scarce and food expensive. The suffering and… Continue reading
Feb 27 What long-dead whalers can teach us about climate change By Ashley Ahearn, KUOW/EarthFix Log books from 19th century whaling ships are treasure troves for modern-day climate scientists. They’re mining these old volumes for day-to-day weather and sea-ice reports from the Arctic region. Continue reading