What Good Are UN Climate Talks Knee-Deep in Oil?

Some new analysis from activists sheds some light on just how deep into the international climate negotiations process Big Oil has managed to burrow.

'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave

"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."

This Whole Thing Really Snuck Up On Us

Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.

The Long Tail of Hurricane Death Will Be Even Longer in Jamaica

A growing body of research has demonstrated that hits from tropical cyclones leave more than just damaged rooftops in their wake, in fact raising mortality rates through a likely wide variety of mechanisms for years.

A Climate-Centric Analysis of the Latest Left-Punching Screed

The fact is, more people care about this than the authors suggest. More people will care even more as the years pass because the problem is not only not going away but actively getting worse.

Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly

We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.

What Is the Biggest Hole Trump Has Ripped in the Walls?

A reasonable accounting of the major policies enacted in one way or another in the nine months of the Trump administration resembles, essentially, a series of weeping voids in the sides of various figurative edifices, now given corporeal form within view of the Treasury building.

'I Wanted My Body to Be Counted': Furloughed Federal Employees Join Enormous Day of Protest

"I can't just sit back and watch things fall apart."

Fossil Fuel Boosters Will Keep Trying to Speak Their Version of the Future Into Existence

The lemonade stand owner releasing a report on the increasing demand for lemonade is, at best, wishful thinking, and at worst, active market manipulation.

Climate Tipping Points Don't Face in Just One Direction

Some of the scariest climate thresholds are approaching fast. But so are some potential ways out.

Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired

Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."

Portland Is Burning on the Only Screens That Matter

It has long been convenient for people opposed to any given protest movement to characterize it as being far more violent and lawless than it actually is. It's just that usually we can be relatively sure that the people doing the characterizing know that they are lying.