According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there are at least 20 million people who are forced from their homes because of severe climate changes each year. The people most impacted now live in the parts of the world that have been dominated, politically and...
We are only two-thirds through the calendar year, and 2023 has already broken the record for the number of billion-dollar weather disasters in the United States, with 23 such events to date. This year’s disasters whose costs exceeded $1 billion include a winter full...
What Will it Really Take to Stop Using Fossil Fuels People have already spent decades: Protesting Taking direct action Taking legal action Exploring technological solutions Since the first Earth Day in the U.S. in 1970, the actions of millions of people have led to:...
The past few years have seen a huge increase in climate disasters. Wildfires across the West Coast and in Hawaii, mass power outages due to extreme cold in Texas, temperature warnings due to extreme heat in Arizona, and hurricanes powerful enough to reach California,...
A recent report by the New York Times analyzed the conditions of tens of thousands of aquifers that hold 90 percent of the groundwater used by towns, cities and states throughout the United States. It found that in the past decade, after 40 years of consistent...
