

Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions No Longer in Lockstep
A decade after the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, new analysis from the UK’s Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) reveals a striking shift: Economic expansion no longer guarantees carbon emissions growth, thanks to countries’ carbon emission mitigation efforts.


Scientists Predict Peak Glacier Loss
Glaciers—icons of the Earth’s climate crisis—are not just shrinking in volume; scientists have now forecast when the rate of glacier disappearances will reach its zenith in this century. In a groundbreaking Nature study, glaciologists have shifted focus from traditional mass-loss metrics to the number of individual glaciers vanishing each year under different climate warming scenarios.


Western US Forests Need More Managed Fires
For much of the last century, wildfire policy in the western United States has focused on limiting or suppressing burned areas while declining to thin or control forest overgrowth and old, dry wood.


Study Explores Attitudes of Sustainable Shoppers
A new national study released by Ceres in partnership with Northwind Climate explores how US adults think about the environment when they shop for goods and what drives—or prevents—them from acting on those intentions.


Counting the Ways Valentine’s Day is Not ‘Green’
Maybe it’s time to show nature a little more love on Valentine’s Day. With increased scrutiny of the environmental footprint of human activities, there are many ways in which the traditional ways of celebrating the holiday of love do not benefit the environment.

