Common Resources

• The Paradox Holding Back the Clean Energy Revolution By Ed Conway, The New York Times, February 22, 2024
  
• Strawberry Case Study: What If Farmers Had to Pay for Water? By Coral Davenport, The New York Times, December 28, 2023 ["With aquifers nationwide in dangerous decline, one part of California has tried essentially taxing groundwater. New research shows it’s working."]
  
• The Struggle to Conserve Threatened Forests in Haiti By Ekpali Saint, Earth.org, Dec 30, 2022 [Has a stunning picture of the Haiti-Dominican Republic border.]
  
• As Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change By Christopher Flavelle and Mira Rojanasakul, The New York Times, November 24, 2023
  
• In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air By Brad Plumer, The New York Times, November 9, 2023 [Government subsides and carbon credits at work.]
  
• When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics By Christopher Ketcham, The Intercept, October 29, 2023
  
• Whales, From Above By Ellie Duke with Photographs and Video by Sutton Lynch, The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2023 [The photographer Sutton Lynch is documenting a dramatic turning point off the coast of Long Island — a resurgence of sea life after decades of depletion.]
  
• Air Quality Life Index 
• America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow  By Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi and Eli Murray, The New York Times, Aug. 28, 2023 [Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a New York Times data investigation revealed.]
• Five Takeaways From Our Investigation Into America’s Groundwater Crisis By Mira Rojanasakul and Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times, Aug. 29, 2023
• Uncharted Waters By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, Aug. 29, 2023 [The threat to groundwater is a classic tragedy of the commons.]
• The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions By Kasha Patel, The Washington Post, August 17, 2023
  
• A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization By Alissa J. Rubin with photographs by Bryan Denton, The New York Times, July 29, 2023
  
• Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable. It Just Got Worse. By Christopher Flavelle, Jill Cowan and Ivan Penn, The New York Times, May 31, 2023
  
• Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows By Patrick Greenfield, The Guardian, January 18, 2023
  
• Once an Open Sewer, New York Harbor Now Teems With Life. Thank the Clean Water Act. By John Waldman, December 30, 2022
  
• The gold-mining city that is destroying a sacred Venezuelan mountain By Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero and Janice Kai Chen, TheWashington Post, December 6, 2022
  
• Herman Daly, professor who introduced ecology to economics, dies at 84 By Emily Langer, The Washington Post, November 4, 2022
  
• The Amazon, undone: A failure of enforcement  By Story by Terrence McCoy and Photos by Rafael Vilela, The Washington Post, Aug. 30, 2022
  
• Carbon Offsets By John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, YouTube, August 22, 2022
  
• This Pioneering Economist Says Our Obsession With Growth Must End By David Marchese, The New York Times, July 17, 2022
  
• How Demand for Twigs Is Bringing Down a Rainforest  By Dionne Searcey and Ashley Gilbertson, The New York Times, July 14, 2022
•  Raft by Raft, a Rainforest Loses Its Trees By Dionne Searcey and Ashley Gilbertson, The New York Times, June 14, 2022
  
• Devouring the rainforest By Terrence McCoy and Julia Ledur, The Washington Post, April 29, 2022
  
• How do carbon markets work? The Economist YouTube Channel, October 1, 2021
  
• China Opened a National Carbon Market. Here’s Why It Matters. By Chris Buckley, The New York Times, July 16, 2021
  
• New Carbon Market Pays Southern Pine-Growers Not to Cut By Ryan Dezember, The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2021
  
• ‘There’s a red flag here’: how an ethanol plant is dangerously polluting a US village By Carey Gillam, The Guardian, 10 Jan 2021
  
•  ‘The Fish Rots From the Head’: How a Salmon Crisis Stoked Russian Protests By Anton Troianovski with Photographs by Sergey Ponomarev, The New York Times, Aug. 15, 2020