As federal climate action falters, America’s mayors have a new plan to stop global warming: ban the use of natural gas in homes.While roughly 58% of American households use gas-powered stoves or heaters, research suggests that doing so is bad for our health an... More »
For a brief moment in 1988, America seemed ready to confront climate change. Scientist James Hansen’s senate testimony on rising temperatures received widespread media coverage, a Global Climate Protection Act passed with bipartisan support in Congress, and ev... More »
A large body of evidence shows that Black and Hispanic Americans are disproportionally exposed to harmful pollutants. People of color are more likely to live near hazardous waste landfills, more likely to reside near contaminated waterways, and more likely to ... More »
While much of global warming research focuses on the natural world — considering how climate change impacts ecosystems, agriculture, and biodiversity — a new wave of research studies how climate change will reshape the social and economic world. In this emergi... More »