People often avoid the elephant in the room, but it’s time we talk about the cow in the room. She is a ruminant, after all, and can no longer be ignored. Indeed, the room is getting increasingly crowded and stinky. Let’s ruminate together and use our cowmon sense, so we can replace ignorance and crisis with science and solutions. It’s […]
Climate
No More Eternity in an Hour: Gardening, Time and the Climate Crisis
The dandelion’s rival grows tall, an iceberg in the border; its taproot matches the height of its spike of purple flower, each petal a new way to tell time. The group of lupins emerges every year in April – straggly, starry-leaved, and then in late May, the spike bursts forth, twisting like a wolf’s tail from the thicket. I stand […]
Winter Waning
Despite a warming climate, “there is still beauty even in this changing season.”
Farmers Adapt to a Changing Climate in Burkina Faso
A photojournalist captures the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Burkina Faso, and the innovative solutions these communities have responded with in adjusting to a new climate reality.
Climate Change in Northern Pakistan: A Family Journey
The stunning views at every turn along the undulating road from Islamabad to Naran set the scene for a climate change journey through the communities of Northern Pakistan.
The Greywater Diaries
Sayd Randle explores a different perspective of California’s water crisis: the stories of Los-Angeles based home greywater system installers.
Facing Fear in the Heart of Alaska
Filmmaker Christina Stone hikes across melting glaciers and descends into their chasms to confront climate change head on and tell its story in Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
Moses and the Marines
Indigenous Yup’ik Alaskans grapple with the relocation of their town as permafrost thaws and riverbanks erode.
“Yale’s Lies?” EPI’s Rankings Ignite National Controversy in Turkey
Don Mosteller, Research Fellow with the Environmental Performance Index, explores the results of the 2016 EPI Report and the ensuing national controversy in Turkey surrounding the country’s performance.
A Model for Change
Before UN delegates arrived in Warsaw for the latest round of climate negotiations, students from 8 universities gathered at Yale to come up with their own climate solutions.
Fighting for Climate Justice
SAGE Magazine sits down with Professor Maxine Burkett to discuss the growing numbers of “climate refugees.”
Can the Climate Movement Learn From Its Mistakes?
A new analysis by Yale law student Nate Loewentheil diagnoses the failures of cap-and-trade in 2010. Listen up, climate organizers.