Top Storycommons.wikimedia.org Switzerland is paying poorer nations to cut emissions on its behalf The agreements raise concerns that other countries will follow suit, delaying more difficult cuts of greenhouse gas emissions in wealthier nations.
Newsletter This new app offsets your carbon footprint, then helps you shrink it Klima lets you put money into projects such as solar or clean cookstoves, but it doesn’t let you off with paying to not change your lifestyle.
Impacts www.nytimes.com Kirk Smith, towering figure in environmental science, dies at 73 Dr. Smith’s meticulous research established household pollution as one of the leading causes of disease and death in the developing world.
Newsletter 76 solutions to stop climate change from Project Drawdown Onshore wind power, utility-scale solar power, reduced food waste: These are just the first three of Project Drawdown’s plan to end the climate crisis with existing technologies.
Newsletter Fed up with costly, dirty fuels, Nigerians switch to cleaner alternatives Nearly four million people, mostly women and girls, die every year from the effects of dirty cooking fuels, WHO says.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities
