Climate Forward: Al Gore
The former vice president speaks to David Gelles about how the climate movement can move forward after President Trump’s rollback of key environmental regulations and where he finds hope as the planet continues warming.
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Pennsylvania Was Once a National Leader in Renewable Energy. What Happened?
Natural gas was pitched as a stopgap between fossil fuels and renewables. Instead, it has derailed Pennsylvania’s energy transition. By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino Second in a series about rising electricity prices in Pennsylvania. Read the first story here.
Is AI Throwing Climate Change Under the Bus?
The first installment in our special Climate Week video series. Spoiler alert: Yes, AI is bad for the climate. AI’s computing power relies on massive data centers that use enormous amounts of electricity and water. The Trump administration wants that…
The people behind America’s disaster recovery
When a disaster strikes, be it a hurricane, flood, wildfire, or other type of extreme weather, an army of workers assemble. They arrive in waves to ravaged areas ready to respond. First in are the personnel trained to navigate the…
Voices from the land: Europe’s competition over Indigenous Sámi resources (commentary)
This series, Voices from the Land, brings together opinion pieces led and written by Indigenous peoples from around the world. Through these commentaries, we share our lived realities and reflections on urgent issues shaping our time — environmental destruction, our…
EV trial among Bali east coast fishers shows promise amid headwinds
KLUNGKUNG, Indonesia — Many of the fishing boats here in Kusamba village leave behind the black sand in near silence as each jukung motors away from Bali’s east coast. “We’re on — it’s just not that loud,” boat captain Nengah…
Leopard sharks mating in the wild captured on camera for first time – video
The leopard shark ‘threesome’ between two males and a female was filmed by a university researcher off New Caledonia. Scientists believe it to be the world’s first recorded observation of two males of the globally endangered species mating in quick…
‘Involved sequentially’: leopard sharks observed mating for first time in wild have threesome
Menage a trois over in 110 seconds and ‘then the males lost all their energy and lay immobile on the bottom’, marine biologist Dr Hugo Lassauce says A trio of leopard sharks in New Caledonia has made marine science history…
Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’
New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023 Governments around the world are ramping up coal, gas and oil extraction which will put climate goals beyond reach, new data has…
Top Fossil Fuel Producing Nations Plan to Blow Past Climate Targets
A report finds that the top producers of coal, gas and oil are planning to mine and drill even more of the fuels in 2030 than they were two years ago. By Nicholas Kusnetz The last two years have witnessed…