Soil impacts climate change in numerous ways. The 2015 International Year of Soils, in conjunction with the Sustainable Development Goals, has brought into focus the significance of soils as a nonrenewable, life sustaining resource. As major contributors to carbon sequestration, ecosystems services, and food production, healthy soils are critical to climate change mitigation and resilience… Read More

On December 12, 2015, the 21st United Nations Conference of Parties concluded with an historic agreement to prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change through mitigation and adaptation. As the first “truly universal agreement on climate change,” the Paris Agreement could prove to be the catalyst for an ever-growing global commitment to climate action… Read More

Here in California climate-altering methane gas pours out of a natural gas storage site and into the atmosphere, with severe impacts for local residents and the climate. Being called the “climate equivalent of the BP disaster,” the leak was first identified on 23 October. After six failed attempts, pipeline operator, the Southern California Gas Co… Read More

On day three of the climate talks an “open consultation on the finance process” was on the agenda. A discussion of how poor countries will finance mitigation and adaptation efforts throws in sharp relief the inequalities associated with rapid climate change. Before the dangers of climate change were known, high-income countries enjoyed the economic benefits… Read More

In his speech at the commencement of the Paris climate change conference, President Obama acknowledged the unparalleled threat posed by global warming and expressed the United States’ commitment to cooperative climate action. As the world’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs), the United States bears special responsibility in the global effort to mitigate and… Read More

Volkswagen’s admission to systematically skirting emissions standards through the widespread use of a “defeat device,” has raised serious concerns about the efficacy of current test practices. Designed to recognize and deceive predictable laboratory emissions tests, the defeat device enabled Volkswagen to circumvent testing market diesel-powered cars that release nitrogen oxide pollutants at up to 40… Read More