Coal is used to generate power almost everywhere, but problems associated with coal ash and coal ash slurry disproportionately affect low-income and… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Environmental advocates say that changing how much power computers and monitors use in idle mode can cut greenhouse gas emissions without requiring… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
As we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide, much of which is absorbed by the oceans. — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
I don't think I could have - and I wouldn't have wanted to - write a book about climate change that wasn't… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
The most effective way to reduce your carbon footprint is to fly less often. If everyone took fewer flights, airline companies wouldn't… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Melting permafrost in Greenland and the Arctic tundra is releasing vast amounts of methane, a potent climate-altering gas. — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Extreme precipitation is likely to increase with rising temperatures because of growing atmospheric humidity, leading to a higher risk of flash flooding… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
When policymakers, financiers and scientists describe the world decades from now, in the throes of climatic changes that we now only model,… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
In the past, offshore wind farms have faced significant opposition in the United States for a few reasons: high costs, complicated rules… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
An inherent tension between the seeming ineffectiveness of immediate and individual action and the long view the government is trying to take… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Climate change is not a distant problem. It's involved in all of our lives through the stuff that we use, buy and… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Climate refers to the long-term averages and trends in atmospheric conditions over large areas, while weather deals with short-term variations, which is… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Environmentalists, members of the Obama administration and government officials in several states see significant potential for offshore wind energy, given that winds… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
If you are like many people, flying may be a large portion of your carbon footprint. Over all, the aviation industry accounts… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
In the stable emissions model, in which a rise in global surface temperatures by two degrees Celsius from preindustrial times is more… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Knowing how much carbon dioxide the ocean is storing is crucial to modeling future climate changes, and given the prevalence of these… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Coal ash, the hazardous byproduct of burning coal to produce power, is a particularly insidious legacy of the nation's dependence on coal. — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Farmers and agricultural authorities must take account of climate change and the prospect of increased rainfall in designing strategies to mitigate the… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
I think it is important to communicate how serious climate change is - it would be a disservice not to. But I'm… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Unlike the visible and heavily regulated airborne emissions from power plant smokestacks, coal ash is largely unseen unless there is a major… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
When you buy carbon offsets, you pay to take planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in exchange for the greenhouse gases… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
The fact that communities that are relatively powerless often are exposed to more dangerous pollution and the worst effects of climate change:… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
I learned about coal ash, which is the byproduct of burning coal for electricity. It is one of the largest solid industrial… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Renewable energy, including from offshore wind, is crucial to the effort to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change, according… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Coal ash gets far less attention than toxic and greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, but it has created environmental and health… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
I think people who speak and write about climate change and environmental degradation need to convey how interesting and important this topic… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Santa Clara County has 23 active Superfund sites, more than any other county in the United States. All of them were designated… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
A less icy Arctic is coming, and generally speaking, that's not a good thing. Climate change is warming this region twice as… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
If there's one vital, but underappreciated, subject in the conversation about climate change, it's waste: how to define it, how to create… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Consumers can choose organic cotton grown without pesticides, but it uses more water and requires more land than conventional crops. Organic cotton can also… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
Sometimes it feels hard to remember that Silicon Valley is an actual place, a collage of parched suburbs, and not just the collective noun… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
Take one round-trip flight between New York and California, and you've generated about 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that your car emits over… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
If there's one vital, but underappreciated, subject in the conversation about climate change, it's waste: how to define it, how to create less of… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
Nitrogen-based fertilizers, which came into wide use after World War II, helped prompt the agricultural revolution that has allowed the Earth to feed its… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
Air quality is already a problem outside of cars: More than 80 percent of people living in cities where pollution is tracked are exposed… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
In the Garden of Eden, figuring out what to wear was easy and the fig leaves were environmentally friendly. Today, it's much harder to… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
When there is this dip in the jet stream that brings cold to the East, there's usually a countervailing loop that takes warm air… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
When you buy carbon offsets, you pay to take planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in exchange for the greenhouse gases you put… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
The world's oceans are littered with trillions of pieces of plastic - bottles, bags, toys, fishing nets and more, mostly in tiny particles -… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
Whales and dolphins have extraordinary hearing and the ability to communicate in widely varying voices. — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
I don't think I could have - and I wouldn't have wanted to - write a book about climate change that wasn't about justice… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
Plastic debris in the ocean was thought to accumulate in big patches, mostly in subtropical gyres - big currents that converge in the middle… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
In the past, offshore wind farms have faced significant opposition in the United States for a few reasons: high costs, complicated rules about who… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
Health care in the United States is responsible for a tremendous amount of waste and a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions. For every… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share
