Curated Perspectives

Climate Change Won’t Stop for the Coronavirus Pandemic

The next several months could bring hurricanes, floods and fire, on top of the pandemic. How do you shelter in place during an evacuation?

500,000 US Clean Energy Jobs at Risk from COVID Effects

Coronavirus is negatively affecting the clean energy sector and the impacts are serious.

What the Coronavirus Curve Teaches Us About Climate Change

Humans don’t easily grasp the concept of exponential growth, but it’s exactly why coronavirus has gotten so hard to manage—and why climate change could too.

What the coronavirus could mean for airline emissions

The pandemic could make it more expensive for airlines to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

Saving People From Coronavirus Can Teach Us How to Do the Same for Climate Change

It is technically feasible to achieve big reductions in pollutants that are fueling the climate crisis. All that’s required is a break in economic production and human activity.

Conservationists set the record straight on COVID-19’s wildlife links

Understanding wildlife-related issues surrounding COVID-19

Opinion: Pakistan’s ‘Green Stimulus’ to combat Covid-19, protect nature

The country’s chief climate change advisor explains the package aimed at handling the pandemic-induced economic crisis, and go green at the same time.

Climate activists shift gears in an age of ‘social distancing’

Climate activists are retooling their strategy for an online existence during the coronavirus pandemic.

Covid-19 Can’t Stop Citizen Science

As the Covid-19 pandemic has forced people to stay inside, citizen scientists increasingly turn to online projects.

Will the next coronavirus come from Amazonia?

Deforestation and the risk of infectious diseases

Coronavirus is a wake-up call

Our war with the environment is leading to pandemics

Arundhati Roy and Bill McKibben Argue Covid-19 an Opportunity for Humanity to Get Off Dangerous Path

If the world is able to "flatten the carbon curve" in the same way it is now desperately trying to flatten the infection rate curve "then people might look back in 50 years at this time and thank us, you know, instead of curse us."

EPA Refused to Hold a Hearing on Its Science Rule, So the UCS Held It for Them

Fighting for Science in a Time of Denial

Poaching spikes amid lockdown in South Asia

Authorities say loss of livelihoods and diverted attention led to a surge in illegal activities during the pandemic-induced lockdown

After Cyclone Amphan, broken houses and rotting fish

Residents of the Sundarbans wonder why they are rebuilding, when their lands have been encroached for years by the seas, and their huts that will fall down in the next cyclone

Indigenous people to have say in UN climate policy

Indigenous peoples’ role in sharing traditional knowledge to combat climate change.

Mud bricks best for cool, green houses, says study

Simple mud concrete bricks provide the most affordable and sustainable houses in the tropics.

There Are Lots of Climate Uncertainties. Let’s Acknowledge and Plan for Them With Honesty.

Climate change could empty wildlife from Australia’s rainforests

Commonwealth seeks common response to climate threat

Climate change an existential threat to Commonwealth countries, which have one-third of the global population, 78% of oceans, and 25% of land.