by Padmini D. When people picture climate activism, they usually imagine protest signs, policy briefings or dense scientific reports. But across cities and galleries worldwide, a quieter, and sometimes louder, form of activism is taking shape on walls, in soundscapes, and inside museums: art. Facts alone rarely move people to act. Data can inform, but […]
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by Neil Auwarter The good ship Earth Imagine you are captain of an ocean liner that has struck an iceberg and is taking on water. A rescue SOS is sent. The crew and passengers work the pumps furiously to keep the ship afloat. The ship’s engineer estimates the vessel could sink in eight hours. But
Emissions continue to rise: Human-caused warming of the planet continues: both carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the global temperature average are continuing to climb. So far, 2026 is experiencing a super El Niño and record-breaking heat waves. Atmospheric carbon dioxide. World Meteorological Organization, State of the Global Climate 2025, p.6. Increase in global temperature
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Creating solar microgrids Electricity microgrids operate independently from the traditional utility grid and are especially useful in rural areas and aging urban centers. Microgrids have economic and resilience benefits and can be powered by a low-carbon combination of solar and batteries. The 2026 update to this Toolbox item reports on the completion of microgrids for
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The Climate.gov website, a trusted and popular source of U.S. climate information run by NOAA, was taken down by the Trump administration in 2025. That URL now redirects to an archive that links to a small portion of old Climate.gov information and is no longer being updated. In response, a group of ex-NOAA employees laid
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by Neil Auwarter Since returning to power in 2025, the Trump administration has dismantled clean energy incentives, lavished tens of billions in new subsidies on oil, gas and coal, and used coercive tariffs to pressure allies into long-term commitments to buy American gas. In March the Administration cut a deal to pay French energy giant
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Now that the federal government has officially abandoned all climate goals, climate action in the United States has shifted to states and local governments. We looked at the goals set by both First Global Stocktake (GST1), a technical assessment from the COP28 meeting in Dubai (2023), and Drawdown, a U.S. nonprofit that analyzes the science behind
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by Padmini Das Climate action is often imagined in sweeping terms: renewable energy, electric vehicles, global policy summits. But some of the most meaningful solutions begin far closer to home, in our kitchens, closets and tool drawers. One of the most quietly powerful responses emerging today is the rise of repair culture: the radical idea
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by Fran Goldstein COP31 — The 2026 UN Climate Summit The annual UN climate negotiations shape global strategy on emissions, finance, energy transition and adaptation. After disappointing progress on phasing out fossil fuels last year at COP30 in Belém, pressure is mounting for clearer plans and real follow-through. Turkey will host COP31 in November in
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Neil Auwarter Thirty years after the first global climate summit in Berlin, and 10 years after the historic Paris Agreement at COP21, nations gathered in November in Belem, Brazil for COP30. The port city sits near the mouth of the Amazon River and is a gateway to the great rainforest that serves as one of
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