Here’s a fact that may surprise you: The global fashion industry is a leading contributor to climate change. And because people don’t often make the connection between their shopping habits and rising ...

To hear some of the biggest boosters of artificial intelligence tell it, we shouldn’t dwell on how the technology’s development is producing large and growing greenhouse-gas emissions because AI ...

As the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week came to a close, the world was once again reminded of a simple but important truth: climate change and global warming are not a hoax or a ...

An expert in computational linguistics, Dan Loehr gave a talk at Bowdoin on how AI is and can be used to address climate change by mitigating emissions from carbon-intensive sectors, modeling climate ...

When politicians talk about reaching “net zero” emissions, they’re often counting on trees or technology that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air. What they don’t mention is just how much these ...

I’d like to make the case that our current obscene levels of inequality are an important but neglected contributing factor to ...

"Climate change is obviously urgent enough that we will fix it quickly, and then I can go back to studying the universe!" Encouraged, I changed course, applying to atmospheric science graduate ...

Optimism, especially about our ability to solve big problems, is in brutally short supply these days. The gloom might be at ...

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Panama's Environment Minister Juan Carlos Navarro describes himself as "a retired politician." But after a long political career, including two terms as mayor of Panama City, old habits die hard. When ...

The author recounts a personal journey from focusing on astronomy to becoming deeply involved in climate change research, highlighting the disconnect between scientific understanding and societal ...