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 · 669 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 · 597 saves · From 2017 · 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
4 min read · 460 saves · 2020-02-21 · Oliver Milman · 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
1 min read · 426 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
414 saves · 2020-07-23 · Abrahm Lustgarten · 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 · 408 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
398 saves · From 2018 · Nathaniel Rich · 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 · 387 saves · 2019-10-09 · New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
OneZero
Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
OneZero
7 min read · 360 saves · 2020-06-25 · Eric Holthaus · Climate change will force more people to leave their homes than at any other point in human history. Conflict is inevitable.
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Guardian Environment
Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption
Guardian Environment
3 min read · 258 saves · Jan 13th · Phoebe Weston · Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis
The Guardian
'Carbon-neutrality is a fairy tale': how the race for renewables is burning Europe's forests
The Guardian
~15 min read · 115 saves · Jan 14th · Hazel Sheffield · Wood pellets are sold as a clean alternative to coal. But is the subsidised bioenergy boom accelerating the climate crisis?
The New York Times
A Global Tour of a Record-Hot Year
The New York Times
3 min read · 108 saves · Jan 14th · Data issued Thursday by NASA confirmed that 2020 has effectively tied the hottest year on record. That means the last seven years have been the warmest since the beginning of modern record-keeping.
BBC Future
The state of the climate in 2021
BBC Future
6 min read · 74 saves · Jan 11th · After the turbulent year of 2020, BBC Future takes stock on the state of the climate at the beginning of 2021.
Guardian Environment
Global ice loss accelerating at record rate, study finds
Guardian Environment
1 min read · 72 saves · Jan 25th · Fiona Harvey · Rate of loss now in line with worst-case scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Our World in Data
Do we only have 60 harvests left?
Our World in Data
8 min read · 72 saves · Jan 14th · Claims that the world has only 100, 60, or even 30 years of harvests left often hit the headlines. These claims are overblown, but soil erosion is a problem and we can do something about it.
Scientific American
Climate Deniers Shift Tactics to ‘Inactivism’
Scientific American
4 min read · 54 saves · Jan 12th · Fossil fuel interests are trying to blame climate change on individuals while also sewing division, says Michael Mann, one of their prime targets
Gizmodo
The Climate Crisis Will Be Steroids for Fascism
Gizmodo
4 min read · 48 saves · Jan 7th · The ingredients that stirred extremists to take on the Capitol will only grow more plentiful as the climate crisis worsens. If officials aren’t ready to take a clear-eyed look at that reality, we’ll…
Vogue Magazine
“A Rise of 1.2 Degrees Celsius is Already Hell for Me”: Ugandan Climate Activist Vanessa Nakate Says…
Vogue Magazine
2 min read · 38 saves · Jan 7th · Vanessa Nakate · Nakate, a Ugandan activist and prominent member of the Fridays For Future movement, outlines the ambitious action we need to tackle the climate crisis right now—not in 20 or 30 years.
Fast Company
The fight against climate change should focus on reaching positive climate tipping points
Fast Company
2 min read · 37 saves · Jan 10th · Kristin Toussaint · At some point, economic forces snowball so that coal becomes too expensive to burn, or electric cars become vastly cheaper than gas. These positive climate tipping points are what government policy…
