How wildfire smoke and air pollution affect your health
A hotter planet is also a smokier one, as residents of New York City are finding out this week. As the intensity and size of wildfires grows, more and more people are being exposed to dangerously unhe...
8 Juni 202312min
How to stop your retirement money funding climate change
How often do you think about how much your pension or 401(k) is contributing to climate change? Chances are not much, but a growing movement wants you to do just that. Richard Curtis is the writer be...
1 Juni 202335min
The biggest opportunity in the history of the world
Dipender Saluja is the Managing Director of Capricorn Investment Group, a venture capital firm with $9B under management. He was an early investor in Tesla. Today Dipender leads Capricorn’s clean tech...
25 Maj 202329min
Does it matter if the world breaches 1.5C for a single year?
This week a new report was released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that says we are likely to exceed 1.5C of warming for a single year at some point in the next five years. It’s a big ...
18 Maj 20239min
Redesigning cities for a future of extreme heat
At their best, cities can be a climate solution: densely packed places with good public transport, effective health care, and plenty for everyone to do. Combined with clean energy, they become carbon-...
18 Maj 202334min
Biden’s climate bill is changing climate tech, and our daily lives
It’s been eight months since President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act. Already the hundreds of billions of dollars it contains for clean energy and slowing climate change —alongside private ...
11 Maj 202329min
How the Bezos Earth Fund spends its billions
Amazon made Jeff Bezos very rich. In 2020, he decided to pledge a portion of that wealth — $10 billion — to launch the Bezos Earth Fund. It is the largest commitment to climate philanthropy ever made ...
4 Maj 202331min
High hopes for biodiversity, but who will pay?
The world is in the middle of the sixth mass extinction and this time it's being driven by human activity. Slowing it down will provide benefits for tackling climate change, and solutions to reign in ...
27 Apr 202334min
