9 Best Articles in 2021
Inc.
MIT Published a List of the 9 Megatrends That Will Shape the World in 2030. Here's What…
Inc.
2 min read · 673 saves · 2020-02-25 · Climate change, transparency, and populism will be driving the workforce 10 years from now.
New York Magazine
The Uninhabitable Earth
New York Magazine
20+ min read · 604 saves · From 2019 · Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear could be our future.
Guardian Tech
Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots
Guardian Tech
5 min read · 468 saves · 2020-02-21 · Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’
The New York Times
How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?
The New York Times
2 min read · 427 saves · From 2018 · See how days at or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit have changed in your lifetime and how much hotter it could get.
The New York Times
The Great Climate Migration Has Begun
The New York Times
20+ min read · 413 saves · 2020-07-23 · New research suggests climate change will cause humans to move in unprecedented numbers. The Times Magazine partnered with ProPublica and data scientists to understand how.
TIME
Greta Thunberg Is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year
TIME
20+ min read · 406 saves · 2019-12-11 · The climate activist has succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change
The New York Times
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
The New York Times
402 saves · From 2018 · We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.
Guardian Environment
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
Guardian Environment
6 min read · 392 saves · 2019-10-09 · New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
ProPublica
The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try.
ProPublica
~17 min read · 388 saves · Jan 25th · A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor…
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Meet the Fixers
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20+ min read · 144 saves · Mar 23rd · 50 emerging leaders who are working on solving our world’s biggest challenges.
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10 Environmental Books We’re Reading This Spring • The Revelator
therevelator.org
4 min read · 70 saves · Mar 24th · From climate change to wildlife trafficking, these new books tackle the toughest problems of the day, along with vital solutions.
Guardian US
The latest must-have among US billionaires? A plan to end the climate crisis
Guardian US
8 min read · 70 saves · Mar 25th · Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have an estimated wealth of $466bn – and are emblematic of a Davos-centric worldview that sees free markets and tech as the answer
The New York Times
How Debt and Climate Change Pose ‘Systemic Risk’ to World Economy
The New York Times
6 min read · 69 saves · Apr 7th · With dozens of countries struggling to manage both staggering debt and mounting climate disasters, some financial leaders are calling for green debt relief.
The Guardian
Green investing 'is definitely not going to work’, says ex-BlackRock executive
The Guardian
5 min read · 68 saves · Mar 30th · Tariq Fancy once oversaw the start of the biggest effort to turn Wall Street ‘green’ – but now believes the climate crisis can never be solved by today’s free markets
The Washington Post
Japan’s Kyoto cherry blossoms peak on earliest date in 1,200 years, a sign of climate change
The Washington Post
65 saves · Mar 29th · The record bloom fits into a long-term pattern toward earlier spring flowering.
The New York Times
Scientists Support an Idea Long Thought Outlandish: Reflecting the Sun’s Rays
The New York Times
4 min read · 62 saves · Mar 25th · The National Academies said the United States must study technologies that would artificially cool the planet by blocking sunlight, citing the lack of progress fighting global warming.
Guardian Environment
'Every choice matters': can we cling to hope of avoiding 1.5C heating?
Guardian Environment
8 min read · 59 saves · Apr 2nd · The Australian Academy of Science warns that limiting global heating to the Paris goal is now ‘virtually impossible’. Is it right?
The Guardian
There's another pandemic under our noses, and it kills 8.7m people a year
The Guardian
4 min read · 59 saves · Apr 2nd · While Covid ravaged across the world, air pollution killed about three times as many people. We must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency with which we confronted coronavirus
BBC Future
The rivers that 'breathe' greenhouse gases
BBC Future
7 min read · 53 saves · Mar 24th · Rivers are a surprisingly large source of greenhouse gases, and water pollution makes their emissions many times worse.
