Georgetown, TX is a conservative city in the middle of oil and gas country. They're also one of the first cities in the US to use 100% renewable energy. Our partners at Hot Mess when down to Texas to learn…
By the end of 2016 in the U.S., over 1 million homes had solar panels, with four times as many installed that year compared to just four years earlier. But if you don’t own the roof over your head, or…
Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the seafloor, and yet they’re home to a quarter of all marine life, making them some of the most biodiverse places on Earth. But their future looks bleak. Decades of environmental threats…
Household appliances account for 90% of energy use in a typical U.S. home, so energy efficiency standards have quietly been saving people mountains of money and helping avoid planet-warming emissions at the same time. Our partners at Hot Mess look…
Deforestation is a big problem for the climate. This kind of land use releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any single country, besides the United States or China. And most of the deforestation in the world today happens…
About half the world has internet access. That’s 3.6 billion people surfing the web. How much energy is that using? And what is our online world doing to our planet’s climate?
https://youtu.be/xlGnve1cjOY To learn more about climate change and how to adapt, just ask the locals! As the world figures out how to live with a rapidly changing climate, traditional knowledge from indigenous cultures could help us understand just how things…
Imagine if we were given a clean, limitless energy source, and we decided to immediately transform the world into a carbon-free society! This wonderous source would power our homes, industries, cars and planes, and humanity’s annual rate of carbon pollution…
Although too much greenhouse gases are dangerous, they play an important role in regulating Earth's temperature. Without them, the world would be way too cold for humans. But adding extra greenhouse gases is causing Earth to heat up and disrupting…
If you think about it, the human story is a story of climate migration. 60,000 years ago, changes in the climate allowed modern humans from Eastern Africa to migrate, creating the different civilizations and nations we know today. In 2017,…
It’s impossible to say that climate change is responsible for any individual storm or hurricane, but climate change is making these storms stronger. How much stronger? It turns out, Hurricane Harvey is the ideal test case to measure how a…
Humans are running a dangerous experiment on our planet. We're putting more and more carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere, which are trapping the sun's energy, and lo and behold, our planet is heating up in response. To…