Climate Stories

From deadly wildfires in Texas to devastating floods in North Carolina, disasters have wreaked havoc across the US in 2024, set to be the world’s hottest year on record. As climate change intensifies, there is no question that the intensity and frequency of extreme weather—often resulting in disasters—is increasing.

What a year it’s been. 2024 held plenty of hard news for nature, but there were also notable wins. Those successes deserve to be celebrated!

Known for their distinctive humps, camels are synonymous with desert environments. In their domesticated state, they provide vital resources such as milk, meat, wool, and transportation to pastoral communities in Africa and Asia, particularly in regions like northern Kenya. However, their importance in ecological and climate resilience is not as widely known. Camels, both in the wild and in their domesticated state, are essential to sustaining more arid ecosystems such as deserts, prairies, and steppes, along with the communities who live there.

With advances in climate science, scientists have identified strong links between our planet’s warming and changing weather patterns. This is known as attribution science: the study of to what degree human influence may have contributed to the frequency, intensity, and likelihood of extreme climate or weather events.

Climate Week—properly known as Climate Week NYC—is the brainchild of the non-profit organization The Climate Group and will run from September 22-29, 2024. Here are four big reasons why we care—and think you should,  too.

This fall marks a pivotal moment for the future of nature conservation. In late October, world governments will meet in Colombia to continue work on the most ambitious plan ever to save the vast array of diversity of life on planet Earth.

World leaders will gather to address plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change this fall. We have clear momentum in advancing pragmatic, bipartisan solutions. But we must move faster and on a greater scale to save nature as we know it. Here's a look at how far we've come and how we must urgently close the gap to conserve our environment.

Climate change is impacting our planet faster than anyone had predicted. With storms increasing in number and severity, with temperatures rising to unsupportable levels, with more flooding and more sea level rise and saltwater encroachment, we’re seeing more and more records getting broken. But these are the kinds of record-breaking events that cost lives and livelihoods, that harm our communities and the natural resources that sustain us.

Global benefits by 2050 following a rapid transition to renewables

There are more than 530 species of sharks in our oceans today protecting the delicate balance of marine ecosystems, which helps ensure a healthy ocean and climate.

The new Climate-Smart Mangrove Tool will help ensure the long-term viability and effectiveness of mangroves in the fight against climate change. 

More worrying than climate deniers are those that believe climate change can't be stopped. But we can't let that zap our motivation. With collective action, change is possible.

What do you think of when you think of climate solutions? It's time to add wildlife and habitat conservation to that list.

After the hottest year on record, here's what we can expect—and what we must accomplish—to combat climate change in the year ahead.

The theme for the 2024 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is “Rebuilding Trust,” a timely choice given the pledge that 190 nations made at last year’s UN climate conference (COP28) a few months ago to transition away from fossil fuels. The gathering at Davos is an opportunity for the government leaders and powerhouses in business and culture in attendance to take on the challenge of delivering this promise of a clean energy transition. The World Economic Forum is putting its stated goal of driving trust and accountability to the test, and the world is watching.

From launching a new platform that harnesses the power of nature in the fight against climate change to raising critical funding to protect black rhinos in Namibia, together we've taken major strides in 2023.

After days of intense negotiations, a landmark agreement emerged from the UN climate summit in Dubai, marking a significant step towards addressing climate change. For the first time in history, the agreement explicitly calls on all nations to transition away from fossil fuels, a crucial step in curbing greenhouse gas emissions and limiting global warming.

With over 100,000 attendees in the massive Dubai Expo Center, it's halftime at the Superbowl of climate change talks—but this is no game. Our fate as a planet hangs in the balance of what is happening here.

This year is set to be the hottest year ever recorded, according to an announcement by the World Meteorological Organization at critical international climate talks underway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

This year’s COP is critical as an inflection point in the transition away from fossil fuels and towards a renewable energy economy. We need to rapidly scale clean energy, and we need to do it while minimizing harm to nature.

Carbon is essential to life on Earth. As the atmosphere has evolved, the amount of carbon in it has increased due to human activity, primarily from burning fossil fuels, resulting in climate change. 

Putting nature at the heart of infrastructure design offers a great way to help halt and reverse biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

In a first-of-its-kind analysis, WWF and Boston Consulting Group compare a rapid transition to renewable energy to our current approach dominated by fossil fuels across key areas. The results show that a rapid transition to renewable energy is dramatically better for nature, human health and safety, and jobs.

Oysters, in all their stunning variety and storied reputation for pearls and elegant cuisine, play an exemplary–if often unacknowledged–role in mitigating the effects of our warming planet.