global warming

As landscapes and our approaches to conserving them shift, so too must our social systems. Climate justice and social justice are intricately linked.

Children are especially vulnerable to climate disruption. But governments around the world are still putting the fossil fuel industry's interests first.

We should all examine the roster of candidates and parties where we live, compare their environmental platforms and records, and ask local contenders about their climate commitments.

We're about to get a taste of what to expect if we fail to take every measure possible to slow and eventually halt human-caused climate disruption.

Climate change doesn't necessarily start fires -- lightning, unattended campfires, carelessly tossed cigarette butts and sparks are major causes -- but it creates conditions for more and larger fires.

If there's a bright side to Trump's decision, it's that climate change has received more serious media coverage than ever before, and people around the world have agreed to increase their efforts.

If more people truly understood the enormity of the climate crisis, we'd be engaged in an all-out effort, comparable to those undertaken during world wars, to reduce the threat.