2025 was a challenging year for climate politics, and a challenging one for our warming planet. In the past 12 months, climate change has been impossible to ignore, whether we would like to or not.

(Bloomberg) -- Global climate negotiations eked out an agreement that manages to nudge forward efforts to curb planet-warming emissions. But the final result — in avoiding explicit reference to fossil ...

In just one year, Trump has derailed an international carbon tax, boosted fossil fuel forecasts, and sought to silence an ...

Public weariness has grown over predictions of climate doom, some of which have been premature or inaccurate. Historically, dire warnings about overpopulation and oil scarcity did not materialize due ...

Mike Hoffmann is Professor Emeritus, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and faculty fellow with the Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell University. He is lead author of “Our Changing ...

Nature magazine, a top British weekly scientific journal, retracted a study predicting climate change would cost an annual $38 trillion throughout the next 25 years after its methodology and ...

Scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on how tech fixes to the climate crisis delay the confrontation with fossil capital. Climate activists portray Brazilian President Lula da Silva and President ...

Meanwhile, California, ground zero for climate policy theater, shows us what happens when ideology outruns reality. Feckless Gov. Gavin Newsom is now scrambling to distance himself from the ...

The title of this essay might be a bit misleading at first. Countries keep setting ever-more stringent emission reduction and higher financing targets at every UN Conference of the Parties (COP) to ...

On this episode of American Prestige: Daniel Waite Penny discusses the new season of Carbon Bros. Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without ...

The New York Times and NPR have quoted me at some length in recent days on the limits to the oil spill’s ability to transform the politics of energy and climate legislation. My comments have been ...

We have been talking about climate change for decades. The science is clear. The technologies exist. Public concern is high. And yet progress still feels fragile, easily reversed by elections, court ...