Here’s the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest

A new study published this month in the journal Environmental Politics reveals that efforts to repress climate and environmental protest are growing worldwide through a combination of new legislation, novel uses of existing legal processes, police actions, vilification of activists, and both violence and killings. The authors contend that acts...

We’re all at risk if Trump dismantles this legendary lab

You may not know it, but you’ve benefited from the National Center for Atmospheric Research.  For more than half a century, the federally funded lab has been instrumental in the development of weather models that have improved the forecasting of extreme events like hurricanes, thus saving lives. Your go-to weather...