John Vaillant, author of the best-selling book Fire Weather, says the hotter our cities become, the more we must worry about fire. “I don’t expect downtown high rises to burn necessarily but houses are very susceptible to fire and things are much more precarious now.”

The year is barely underway and the paradoxes are already bleak. Climate fires exploded in LA just after Trump’s certification as winner of the US presidential election and the same day he confirmed his two-pronged approach to energy: more fossil fuels, no more renewables.

You’re kind of unusual. Don’t be offended — I think I must be too.

Pick any subcategory and you’re immediately swamped, lost in squadrons of reproachful browser tabs, disappointed bookmarks, and fanciful to-read lists.

There’s something strangely reassuring about the genre, even when it’s grim. Such insightful minds struggling with futures that are already arrived but largely invisible; baked in but beyond polite conversation.

The paltry amount wealthy nations agreed to give those less well off for climate reparations is about what the world spends on crude oil in just 40 days.

Almost none of the world’s most powerful leaders will be showing up in Baku — by contrast, more than 1700 fossil fuel lobbyists are mobbing the conference halls, official passes dangling from their necks.

“How are you coping?” Your answers feel even more on point with Donald Trump headed back to the White House, and you are certainly not alone if you’re feeling dread or even despair this week. I wish you could see my inbox — you would quickly be disabused of the notion that no one wants to talk about it.

While the media narrative would have readers believe that sales are stalling, recent numbers show that EVs are still setting records in both the U.S. and Canada.

While it will take some time to figure out what’s happening at the global level this year, the numbers for 2023 are not good. Worldwide, forests, plants and soils released almost as much carbon as they absorbed, according to an international team of sixteen researchers.