There are serious worries about unconventional gas and oil, especially those concerning the environment. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
There are several types of greenhouse gasses, but carbon dioxide is the most important. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents - greens and anti-greens alike - as toothless. But it was also the… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Canceling the climate pact will loudly demonstrate Trump's willingness to fight - an important step for the White House because, on a… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“A milpa is a field, usually but not always recently cleared, in which farmers plant a dozen crops at once, including maize, avocados, multiple… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
“In the classic successional course, each suite of plants replaces its predecessor, until the arrival of the final, “climax” ecosystem, usually tall forest.” — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents - greens and anti-greens alike - as toothless. But it was also the first time… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
“Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the political failure… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
“The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment. They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation and thirst,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
“The varieties are not like islands, carefully apart,” Perales explained. “They are more like gentle hills in a landscape—you see them, they are clearly… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
“export of food from Ireland during the famine: 430,000 tons of grain in 1846 and 1847, the two worst years. “The Almighty indeed sent… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
“all states can be parceled into four types: pluralist, in which the state is seen by its people as having moral legitimacy; populist, in… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
“Before Columbus, Holmberg believed, both the people and the land had no real history. Stated so baldly, this notion-that the indigenous peoples of the… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
“More than a hundred sets of casta paintings are known. Many are beautifully crafted. Some were painted by mixed people themselves. Looking” — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
“Anything goes now, apparently,” Fiedel told me. “The lunatics have taken over the asylum.” — Charles C. Mann Copy Share
