Bill McKibben

It’s in this country that scientists, funded by or working for the government, came to understand the role of carbon in our atmosphere.

Donald Trump tries to overturn the most basic meme of American history.

The Day One executive orders call for more drilling—something that, really, nobody wants.

As President, he told us that we needed to shift to solar power. We should have listened to him then.

Scientists don’t yet understand why temperatures have been steadily spiking above the projections. But what they do understand is bad enough.

They remember a time before we conducted our public life with vulgarity—and they have a distinct memory of people like Trump.

The next President will have to deal with a stream of unnatural disasters. So perhaps it would be wise for Harris to more aggressively remind voters of the stakes.

Solar fields turn out to be ideal for pollinators, too.

California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels

Now, with rapid increases in temperature powering a never-ending stream of fires, floods, droughts, and storms, it’s easy to capture images—perhaps too easy, in that we’re so inundated with inundation and conflagration that, at some point, we seem to shut down. Last year’s record chaos, featuring the hottest temperatures in a hundred millennia, feels barely remembered; the news this spring that carbon dioxide has taken a record leap didn’t make the front pages. Those of us in the eastern U.S. cl…