Environment

Do Airline Climate Offsets Really Work? Here’s the Good News, and the Bad.

New York Times: Carbon offset programs have become ubiquitous. You’ve probably seen them as check-box options when booking flights: Click here to upgrade to a premium seat. Click here to cancel…

Climate change: the IPCC has served its purpose, so do we still need it?

The Conversation: In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its first assessment report on the state of climate change science. The synthesis of the sixth assessment report…

Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity

Yale Environment 360: The Mekong Delta is under a chemical threat arguably more deadly for the long term than the Agent Orange deployed across it during the Vietnam War half a century ago. By the middle of this century, it could be…

Stanford Gets $1.1 Billion for New Climate School From John Doerr

New York Times: John Doerr, one of the most successful venture capitalists in the history of Silicon Valley, is giving $1.1 billion to Stanford University to fund a school focused on climate change and sustainability. The gift, which Mr. Doerr is making…