COP27 Climate Conference Results?

Dismantling Bretton Woods to Pay the Climate Bill

Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending.

Tina Gerhardt

Climate Change Should Have Dominated the Midterms. It Didn’t.

When you think about how an ever more overheated planet is going to affect our children and grandchildren, shouldn’t global warming have been right at the top of any list?

Tom Engelhardt

This Holiday Season, You Can Find Ways to Talk to Your Family About the Climate Crisis

Once you ask people about the ways they see the climate changing around them, many want to engage.

Madeline Ostrander

The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the University of California, and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution

On this week’s episode of Start Making Sense, UCLA law professor Ahilan Arulanantham and writer Eliza Moreno join the show. 

Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense

In a Historic Move, Frontline Communities Will Be Compensated for Climate Crisis Impacts

At the UN climate negotiations, delegates celebrated the decision to create a mechanism by which developed countries will compensate developing countries for the havoc wreaked upon them by climate change.

Tina Gerhardt

Students Tell Their Universities: Keep Fossil Fuel Companies Out of Climate Research

Amid COP27, members of the Fossil Free Research movement took action around the world, protesting the influence of Big Oil on crucial climate change studies.

Ilana Cohen

These Moms Are Leading the Fight Against Environmental Racism

In Los Angeles, the fight against toxic air pollution is a family affair.

Eliza Moreno

The “International Community” Is an Ineffectual Fantasy

World leaders invoke it. We’re lead to believe it will act on our behalf. Does it even exist?

Rajan Menon

Should Governments Reinvest in Nuclear Power to Fight Climate Change?

Jessica Lovering argues that nothing scales up like nuclear, while Paul Hockenos says it is just too expensive and slow to deploy.

Jessica Lovering and Paul Hockenos