The Power Grid is Starting to Sense Trouble Before It Starts
The grid is learning to spot problems early. Smart meters, sensors and cameras now stream near real-time data from the "grid edge" (the poles, wires and meters closest to your home), so utilities can catch outages, voltage problems and failing equipment sooner.
How Will El Niño Affect Your Energy This Winter?
A record-strength El Niño is set to bring extreme winter weather that strains the power grid, raising the risk of outages and higher energy bills. A few simple steps now—outage prep, efficiency fixes, and understanding peak pricing—can help you stay ahead of it.
The Vanishing Winter: How Record Cold Masks a Forest Crisis
While the headlines focus on the deep freeze, the long-term data reveals a much quieter, more permanent shift—our winters are disappearing.
The Power Paradox: The Hidden Cost of Intelligence
AI is revolutionizing the world—but it’s also using massive amounts of energy and water to do it. AI’s appetite is reshaping the energy landscape.
Climate Literacy: Empowering a New Generation for a Sustainable Future
In 2024, extreme weather events disrupted schooling for 242 million children in 85 countries. The next generation must be educated to not just face, but help solve, the climate crisis.
Air Conditioning is Creating a Climate Feedback Loop
Demand for air conditioning is soaring. This creates a vicious cycle of more air conditioning that generates more greenhouse gases.
Drought and Wildfires Are Spreading To Unexpected Times and Places
As warming temperatures reshape the environment, droughts and wildfires are increasingly appearing in unexpected places and times.
A Drowning World: The New Reality of Global Flooding
Over the past few years, the world has experienced a relentless barrage of devastating floods, many in completely new areas.
Finding a Sustainable Solution to AI’s Thirsty Appetite
AI has become an integral part of our lives but it also carries a substantial environmental burden, with significant energy and water consumption.
How Smart Cities Can Help Us Adapt to Mega Heatwaves
There is no single solution, but smart cities can help us both cut greenhouse gasses and adapt to a new reality of mega heatwaves.
Building Climate-Resilient Coral Reefs: A Race Against Time
Coral reefs face existential threats due to climate change. New restoration methods offer hope, but their lasting impact depends on urgent action to combat ocean warming.
Turn Eco-Anxiety into Climate Action
The wildfire smoke from Canada that choked New York, the Northeast and Midwest this summer made it clear there’s no escape…
How Food and Climate Change Create a Vicious Cycle
Our food systems and climate change are interconnected in a destructive cycle that threaten global food security.
Climate Literacy Can Empower Climate Action
Today’s young people are living through a constant barrage of climate disasters. Most are not taught why and what can be done.
The Costly Environmental Impact of Fast Fashion
Clothing and textiles production releases 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases every year – that’s approximately 10% of the global planet-warming CO2 emissions
Preserving Biodiversity Protects the Planet
Our planet is in the midst of the sixth mass extinction — with nearly one million plant and animal species facing extinction by 2040 because of human activity.
Glaciers are Melting Faster than Any Point in History
Glaciers iare melting faster than predicted, with consequences including sea rise, storm surges, flooding, and displacements.
Our Warming Climate is Fading Fall Colors
Scientists have discovered that warmer weather is making the fall foliage start later, end sooner, and even change the palette.
Summer of Floods is Urgent Call for Energy Transition
How are inland areas far from rivers and streams still experiencing such enormous flooding? Extreme rainfall spurred by climate change
Study Finds Western Megadrought is Worst in 12 Centuries
The drought that began in 2000 is now the driest two decades since 800 A.D.