Fifty years ago, then-President Lyndon Johnson traveled to California to dedicate the newest member of the state’s flagship university system: the University of California at Irvine. On Saturday, President Barack Obama marked the anniversary by delivering the commencement at UCI’s graduation. Obama focused the speech...

This is a guest post by Heather Clark: I tend to be fairly quiet about sharing my thoughts about climate change, until now. As a mother of two toddlers, I realized that creating a smaller carbon footprint at home is not enough. I am deeply...

From the fuzzy bumblebees our children chase in the garden, to the industrious honeybees that sweeten our herbal tea, bees have woven an essential place in nature’s mosaic. But bees are now caught in the toxic web of our climate crisis. You may have heard...

When I graduated from New York University many years ago, the ceremony was held at Washington Square Park, just a few steps away from the college library. Although the pomp and circumstance surrounding the event seemed overwhelming at the time, it was a quaint ceremony...

For more than a century, humans have been sending extra greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, from industrial and agricultural activities. We are tampering with the balance of gases in our atmosphere. It is now trapping too much of the sun’s heat, so that our planet cannot properly...