By Ethan Brown At the UN’s COP27 climate conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, world leaders will be presented with a challenging topic — oil and natural gas. Toward the close of last year’s COP26 conference, China and India forced an…
Recently The Guardian completed a five-month investigation into “carbon bombs,” or fossil fuel projects that would, over the course of their lifetimes, emit over one billion tons of carbon. The report revealed 195 planned oil and gas carbon bombs around the world. If they should proceed as planned, these projects alone…
Recently The Guardian did a five-month investigation into “carbon bombs,” or fossil fuel projects that, over the course of their life, would emit over one billion tons of carbon. The conclusion was that there are 195 planned oil and gas carbon bombs around the world. If they…
Monarch butterflies are a scientifically unique, economically valuable, and culturally significant species. But monarchs are now under threat from climate change, habitat loss, pesticides and other factors. In recent weeks the International Union for the Conservation of Nature officially declared the monarch butterfly an endangered…
By Ethan Brown Very rarely does a news story make me genuinely frustrated. Sad? Sure. Disappointed? Of course. Wanting action? Almost daily. But for me — a person who tends not to get angry — full-blown frustration feels like it…
By Ethan Brown April 22, 1970 marks a fascinating moment in American environmental history. It was the first Earth Day. As the environment entered the public consciousness, the U.S. federal government passed an unprecedented slate of environmental protection laws. The…
By Ethan Brown On April 11, 20-year-old Just Stop Oil activist Miranda Wheelan appeared on Good Morning Britain to share her cause. Richard Madeley, the interviewer, came in hot from the start with an avalanche of questions designed to undermine…
By Ethan Brown With the release of a third installment on April 4, 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has officially wrapped up its Sixth Assessment Report. This report drew on tens of thousands of academic papers in the…
By Ethan Brown The refrain comes up all the time. “When are we going to solve climate change?” “We need to come up with a solution to climate change!” “There’s still time to fix climate change!” The positive attitude is…
By Ethan Brown Today’s soaring gas prices have nothing to do with climate change. There was no climate tax or gas tax or revoked drilling lease that prompted the market to go haywire. Rather, the Russian invasion of Ukraine’s effect…
By Ethan Brown Worldwide, livestock accounts for between 14.5% and 18% of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. Due to meat’s outsized impact, many climate activists have adopted vegan, vegetarian, or low-meat diets as an individual climate solution, and advocate such diets…
BY: Ethan Brown On August 29, the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana, recording a gust of 172 miles per hour in Port Fourchon as it came ashore. By September 1, Ida had still not…