News & Commentary

Climate Got Your Tongue?

September 25, 2015 Latest NewsColoradoPerrin Ireland

In the Rocky Mountains, long-tongued bumblebees are getting licked by warmer temperatures.

Must We Choose Between Clean Air and a Stable Climate?

September 24, 2015 Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer

A new study tells us how we can have both.

Das Pollute

September 24, 2015 Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer

Did Volkswagen expose flaws in our emissions-testing regime?

Which Countries' COP21 Climate Pledges Made the Grade?

September 22, 2015 ExplainerChina, United States, Mexico, Canada, InternationalNicole Greenfield

What countries got right and what still has room for improvement.

Keeping Tabs on the Church’s Power...and Water and Gas

September 22, 2015 DispatchChicagoSusan Cosier

The Archdiocese of Chicago is acting on the pope’s environmental message.

Six Feet Under

September 21, 2015 Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer

A new study suggests that coastal cities are much more vulnerable to flooding than previously thought.

Know Your Roots

September 18, 2015 Latest NewsPerrin Ireland

Mangrove forests help keep our heads above water—and marine protected areas help them help us.

If You Build It, Climate Change Will Come

September 17, 2015 Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer

We’ve already built enough coal-fired plants to create a climate change calamity.

Throw Another Glacier on the Barbie!

September 14, 2015 Latest NewsInternationalBrian Palmer

Australia just ousted its climate change–denying prime minister. Will the new guy be better?

In a Flash

September 2, 2015 PerspectivesWest, United StatesAlisa Opar

A wildland firefighter documents one of the worst fire seasons on record.

Stalking the Sustainability Unicorn

September 1, 2015 PerspectivesUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

What will be “the Uber of saving the planet?” (And, um, how do we get in on the ground floor?).

A Conversation with NRDC’s President

August 31, 2015 NRDC in ActionUnited States

Rhea Suh explains how her lifelong passion of the environment and becoming a mother drew her to an organization that "gets things done."

6 Cities That Are Ready for Climate Change

August 31, 2015 ExplainerNew York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Portland (Oregon), San AntonioKim Castleberry

These urban-planning projects prove that embracing nature's own tools can sometimes provide the best defense against drought and flood.

India's Red-Hot Problem

August 31, 2015 NRDC in ActionGujarat, Ahmedabad, IndiaKim Castleberry

Fighting deadly heat waves is futile, but preparing for them might wind up saving thousands of lives across the country.

5 Ways Cities Are Preparing for a Dry (or Flooded) Future

August 31, 2015 ExplainerUnited StatesKim Castleberry

Ditch-diggers and cement trucks? Try trees and rainwater cisterns. City planners across the country are realizing that green infrastructure is the key to climate resilience.

Kotzebue Calling

August 31, 2015 DispatchAlaska, ArcticBruce Barcott

President Obama’s trip to the Arctic will reveal some cold, hard truths about the fossil-fuel industry’s impact on Alaskans.

The Speed Sweet Spot

August 28, 2015 ExplainerUnited StatesBrian Palmer

Not too fast, not too slow—how driving speed and free-flowing traffic can lower the carbon emissions from our tailpipes.

Not-So-Vacant Lots

August 28, 2015 DispatchNew Orleans, LouisianaAlisa Opar

From birds to trees to rats, post-Katrina New Orleans is a study in “disaster ecology.”

Northward Ho!

August 27, 2015 Latest NewsArctic, AlaskaAlisa Opar

Obama is headed to the Arctic. Here are five things the president should put on his must-do-in-Alaska list.

The Great Oyster Crash

August 26, 2015 DispatchOregon, WestEric Scigliano

Ocean acidification hits the Pacific shellfish industry.