Our Best Chance to Slow Global Warming Comes in the Next Nine Years We are precisely halfway through the six-decade cycle that could delineate the crucial years of the climate crisis. January 7, 2021 Can Wall Street’s Heaviest Hitter Step Up to the Plate on Climate Change? More significant than BlackRock executives’s pledges is the firm’s continued inclusion of fossil-fuel companies in its index funds. December 23, 2020 Our Stuff Weighs More Than All Living Things on the Planet This year, the weight of all “human-made mass” exceeded that of the earth’s entire biomass. We now live on Planet Stuff. December 16, 2020 Where We Stand on Climate The implacable rise of the oceans is accelerating, and some of the most important physical systems on the planet seem at tipping points. December 11, 2020 The Climate Debt the U.S. Owes the World We can’t meet our moral and practical burdens simply by reducing our own carbon emissions; we also need to make amends. December 2, 2020 How Banks Could Bail Us Out of the Climate Crisis Banks have helped cause much of the crisis we find ourselves in; it would be fascinating if they turned out to be one of the solutions. November 25, 2020 Global Warming by the Numbers, Because This Week the Reality Is Too Much In a few days, Hurricane Eta cost Honduras the equivalent of around twenty per cent of its G.D.P.—as Iota crashes into the same terrain, its residents are suffering an impossible fate. November 17, 2020 If There’s Something Valuable Under the Soil, Life Aboveground Can Be Hard It’s been twenty-five years since Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged for defending the environment. November 11, 2020 The Election Outcome Will Make Sweeping Climate Action Harder Activists may have to look beyond a likely divided Washington—to the country’s other cities and states—to push for meaningful environmental reform. November 4, 2020 On Climate Change, We’re Entirely Out of Margin The U.S. government and the world have done far too little on climate change, and so now we must move far faster than is comfortable or convenient. October 28, 2020