President Obama arrived at the climate conference in Glasgow like a spirit from another time. He wore a black suit and gray shirt, tieless. A crowd of star-struck delegates parted like holy water around him. They all remembered the happy days of the Paris climate agreement in 2015, when he …
Read More »More Than 70 Science and Climate Journalists Challenge Supreme Court Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett
The following op-ed has been signed by dozens of leading climate and science journalists, listed below. We are science and climate journalists. We are researchers and weavers of information, creating a fabric that explains the work of scientists who themselves are working to describe our natural world and universe. We …
Read More »The No Lives Matter President
Oregon governor Kate Brown, until Friday, could not get President Donald Trump on the phone. She noted this the day before, when she also revealed her state has never seen this amount of uncontained wildfire. The skies have turned into a literal hellscape and more than one million acres have …
Read More »Can We Learn to Live With Less? Covid-19 and the Debate on 'Degrowing' the Economy
This article was originally published by Grist, and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. In 1968, a small group of elite academics, industrialists, and government officials gathered at a Roman villa to discuss “the predicament of mankind.” They called themselves the Club of Rome, and, in a …
Read More »Ziggy Marley: 'Be Responsible Citizens of Planet Earth'
In honor of Rolling Stone’s Climate Crisis issue, we asked artists to contribute messages about what they, their governments, and everyday people can do to stand up to the threat of climate change. From England to Jamaica to the United States, we are hearing from artists and activists around the …
Read More »'We're Running Out of Time': Images of the Global Climate Strike
A little more than a year after 16-year-old Greta Thunberg began her lone school strike outside Swedish parliament, millions of protesters joined her on Friday, pouring into the streets of cities all over the globe to emphasize the urgency of acting to address the climate crisis. The strikes are timed …
Read More »Getting to the Bottom of the Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is suddenly on everyone’s lips. Freshman superstar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is championing it. The GOP’s anti-tax jihadi Grover Norquist is trashing it. But what is it? And where did it come from? And why were its backers protesting Nancy Pelosi? Rolling Stone spoke to Varshini Prakash, …
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