In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades — those seem…
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming. He is a co-founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org, an international climate campaign that works in 188 countries around the world.
Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo.,…
The UN’s big climate conference ended Saturday in Cancún, with claims of modest victory. "The UN climate talks are off the life-support…
I got to see the now-famous enthusiasm gap up close and personal last week, and it wasn’t a pretty sight. The backstory:…
Try to fit these facts together: * According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come through the warmest decade,…
Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote what many have called the first book for a general audience on global warming. One…
Most political arguments don’t really have a right and a wrong, no matter how passionately they’re argued. They’re about human preferences —…
Even for Americans, constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and,…
When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its latest report in early February, it was greeted with shock: “World Wakes…
James Lovelock is among the planet’s most interesting and productive scientists. His invention of an electron capture device that was able to…
