The climate crisis is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and rapidly-depleting natural resources have made... Read More

By now, plenty of us have seen the almost endless documentation in the media of the effects our plastic reliance has had on oceans:... Read More

2016 was the hottest year on record, 2015 and 2014 come in second and third, respectively, and 2017 seems like it’ll fall right in... Read More

This summer marked the ten-year anniversary of Al Gore’s groundbreaking climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, and a pertinent reminder of the climate catastrophe... Read More

Solar Impulse 2, a completely solar-powered aircraft, completed its journey around the world last Tuesday without power from a single drop of oil. The aircraft set... Read More

If you Google Image search the Bramble Cay melomys, the results will show a rather unremarkable looking rat. With its large, black, shiny eyes... Read More

More than 140 world leaders gathered in Paris on Monday to deliver messages of optimism at the start of two weeks of intensive climate... Read More

One day I’ll wake up and the liberal love fest with Pope Francis will be over—but until that day comes, I want to make... Read More

As someone who has long called for humanists and mainstream religionists to work together, I naturally welcome Pope Francis’s call for action on climate... Read More

Naomi Oreskes is a professor of the history of science and an affiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. She is... Read More