Across the country, temperatures climbed into the triple digits this summer, putting over 100 million people under a heat alert in early August. Summers like this have become increasingly common. … Read more
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A Case Study in Nature-Based Solutions: Coney Island, NY
By protecting, restoring, and integrating nature into our communities, we can create more beautiful and enjoyable environments while helping to protect ourselves from mounting natural disaster risk. These approaches are … Read more
Expanding Clean Energy Requires a Responsible Critical Minerals Supply Chain
We are currently witnessing the consequences of an overheating planet. Prolonged heat waves, uncontrollable wildfires, flash flooding and other extreme weather events have become too common in recent years. Pollution … Read more
NWF Program for High Schoolers in New York State Fosters Community, Hope and Civic Action
“The YSC provides a place for students who are passionate about climate change to meet and learn. The program helps students see all the possibilities they have through activism and … Read more
What Drought Reveals About Our Changing Climate
As of May 2026, more than half the country had experienced drought this year, making it the worst spring drought recorded in decades. Unfortunately, these drought conditions have been increasing … Read more
Why Neglecting the Great Northwoods Threatens Michigan’s Businesses
John Mueller has owned the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge since 2018. This property, built in 1934 on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, resides in the Great Northwoods—more than 60 million acres of pure, … Read more
Major Milestones for Offshore Wind
We are in a season of milestones for offshore wind energy. Three projects off the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. celebrated major progress towards completion: All three of these projects … Read more
Building hope, organizing communities, and strategic planning on Florida’s Coast
Anyone who has the fortitude to follow the news these days has concluded that climate solutions are not currently coming from leaders in Tallahassee, Florida or Washington, D.C. It is … Read more
Cities and Youth Climate Leaders Need Each Other. Here’s Why.
In April 2025, Harris County, the largest county in Texas (and where I call home), adopted its first-ever Climate Justice Plan. The planning process for this strategy framework was guided … Read more
How Federal Funds Show Up on the Ground: CCS Project Deployment in California
In late 2025, I had the chance to visit something remarkably unremarkable: a carbon capture demonstration project outside San Francisco. Housed inside a very typical looking power generation facility was … Read more
