Climate Crisis

There are four key ingredients to the disastrous wildfire seasons in the West, and climate change is a key culprit.

As of Tuesday, more than two million acres have burned across the state so far in 2020, which makes this a record year, surpassing 2018, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. About 200 Labor Day visitors to the Sierra National Forest had to be evacuated by helicopter after being trapped by the Creek Fire, and Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in five counties.

California is on fire. Almost 2.5 million acres of land have burned there so far this year — nearly 20 times what had burned at this time last year — and the wildfire season is far from over.

Happy Earth Overshoot Day! There is nothing happy about it really. This year Earth Overshoot Day falls on August 1, the earliest day ever! Never heard of Earth Overshoot Day? Or the Ecological Footprint? This video explains it briefly with illustrations.

How much productive land and sea area does it take to support your lifestyle?

Most Americans might be surprised to discover that it would take the ecosystems of 1.9 United States to regenerate the ecological resources U.S. residents use annually.

“There are consequences of busting the ecological budget of our one and only planet," the CEO of the Global Footprint Network network said.

On August 1, humans will have consumed more natural resources in 2018 than the Earth can regenerate this year, according to the California-based Global Footprint Network.

For 60 years, the fossil fuel industry has known about the potential global warming dangers of their products. 

It was once a bipartisan issue, but now one of America's major parties acts like climate science doesn't exist.

Addressing the danger of climate change has gone from being a political liability to an economic opening.

Democrats mostly agree the federal government should do more on climate, while Republicans differ by ideology, age and gender.

Protecting the environment and tackling climate change have climbed up the list of Americans’ political priorities this year as economic concerns have faded, according to a new report from Pew Research Center.

COMIC: In the US, where political parties have increasingly staked claims on one side of the issue or the other, beliefs may be more about belonging than facts

We’re standing at a climate crossroads: the world has already warmed 1.1°C since the Industrial Revolution. 

When carbon emissions pass a critical threshold, it can trigger a spike-like reflex in the carbon cycle, in the form of severe ocean acidification that lasts for 10,000 years, according to a new MIT study.

The interplay of carbon dioxide, winds and Southern Ocean waters could be reaching an environmental tipping point.