Editor's Note: This story was updated on November 9, 2020 to reflect the outcome of the presidential election...
Nov 06, 2020
‘An imperative enfranchisement effort’: Amid 2020 challenges, Oregon’s vote-by-mail founders reflect on a nationwide shift
Election Day was the latest deadline to postmark a mail-in ballot in most states. Despite lawsuits filed by...
Nov 04, 2020
Online activism keeps Earth Day alive during the pandemic
WOODS HOLE, Mass. — On April 22, 1970, Harvard graduate student Denis Hayes led the first Earth Day event...
Apr 22, 2020
Inside Idaho’s long legislative battle over climate change education
What schools should teach kids about climate change – or whether to teach it at all – has...
Dec 20, 2019
Seven steps we should take now to address climate change
SVALBARD, Norway — Before sailing to the far north, my impression of the Arctic was snarled in visions...
Nov 20, 2019
ON THE GROUND IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO
In New Mexico, life and death flow at the pace of the Rio Grande
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — El agua es la vida. Water is life. Doris Rhodes knows that mantra well. She inherited...
Oct 02, 2019
Facing evidence of a rapidly warming Arctic, an energy researcher sees new promise in “bad” technologies
The sun never set while I was in the Arctic. Every night I stood on the deck of...
Sep 13, 2019
A link between Texas and the Arctic to combat climate change
AUSTIN, Texas — Although they’re 3,000 miles and climatic worlds apart, Texas and the Arctic are closely connected...
Aug 14, 2019
Ed Markey lays out the promises and challenges of the “Green New Deal”
BOSTON — On Earth Day, Sen. Ed Markey drove home the urgency of this moment in addressing climate...
Apr 24, 2019
Aspirational climate goal embraced at U.N. talks, but not by U.S.
For decades, diplomatic discussions have focused on how to keep Earth’s average temperatures from warming more than 2...
Dec 11, 2018
