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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Visitors shield themself from the sun with umbrellas as they walk in the garden of the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris, during intense heat on Monday, June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

    Unprecedented June heat grips Europe this week

    Originally published: Yale Climate Connections on June 22, 2026 by Irene Sans and Jeff Masters (more by Yale Climate Connections)  | (Posted Jun 24, 2026)

    Climate change is making extremely dangerous heat waves like this one more common.

  • A home burns in the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif., Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Nic Coury, File)

    Wildfires used to ‘go to sleep’ at night. Climate change has them burning overtime

    Originally published: Yale Climate Connections on April 20, 2026 by Seth Borenstein (more by Yale Climate Connections)  | (Posted Apr 22, 2026)

    California now has about 550 more fire-friendly hours a year than it did in the 1970s.

  • A man walks on rocks along the shore as oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

    What the Iran conflict means for gas prices, clean energy, and the climate

    Originally published: Yale Climate Connections on April 1, 2026 by Dana Nuccitelli (more by Yale Climate Connections)  | (Posted Apr 04, 2026)

    U.S. gas prices could hit $7 a gallon if the Strait of Hormuz remains restricted through June. Here’s how that could affect EVs, wind, and solar.

  • Summer-like slug of heat pushes across much of North America

    Originally published: Yale Climate Connections on May 15, 2025 by Bob Henson (more by Yale Climate Connections)  | (Posted May 19, 2025)

    Temperatures hit 100°F in northern Minnesota, 112°F in Texas, and 115°F in Mexico.

  • Dr. Brian Stacy, NOAA veterinarian, prepares to clean an oiled Kemp's Ridley turtle. Veterinarians and scientists from NOAA, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, and other partners working under the Unified Command are capturing heavily-oiled young turtles 20 to 40 miles offshore as part of ongoing animal rescue and rehabilitation efforts. Credit: NOAA and Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

    Cuts to U.S. weather and climate research could put public safety at risk

    Originally published: Yale Climate Connections on February 21, 2025 (more by Yale Climate Connections)  | (Posted Feb 26, 2025)

    Firings and budget cuts could slow emergency disaster response and weaken resilience efforts.

  • Image credit: Antonio Huerta

    American society wasn’t always so car-centric. Our future doesn’t have to be, either

    Originally published: Yale Climate Connections on October 3, 2023 by Sarah Wesseler (more by Yale Climate Connections)  | (Posted Oct 10, 2023)

    The surprising history of cars in the U.S. offers hope for a shift toward more climate-friendly transportation options.

  • The Donnie Creek wildfire in northeast British Columbia, Canada (seen here on June 4, 2023), became the largest recorded in the province's history in mid-June. June 2023 was Canada's warmest June on record. (Image credit: BC Wildfire Service)

    June 2023 was the world’s warmest June on record

    Originally published: Yale Climate Connections on July 13, 2023 by Jeff Masters (more by Yale Climate Connections)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2023)

    June featured unprecedented Canadian heat and wildfires, record-low Antarctic sea ice, and a strengthening El Niño.

  • A giant spillway at Hoover Dam gathers gravel and other debris instead of water, as seen on June 28, 2022. The dam has two of these concrete-lined open channels, designed to help funnel overflowing water from Lake Mead around Hoover Dam and out into the Colorado River. The spillways haven’t seen any overflow since the summer of 1983. (Image source: © Tom Yulsman via waterdesk.org))

    A next-level water crisis: Colorado River Basin faces Tier 2 restrictions

    Originally published: Yale Climate Connections on August 17, 2022 by Bob Henson (more by Yale Climate Connections)  | (Posted Aug 24, 2022)

    The unprecedented move arrives as southwestern states wrangle over how to cut water use.

  • An Indian woman drinks water on March 29, 2022, during a fierce heat wave. (Image credit: UNDP India )

    India and Pakistan’s brutal heat wave poised to resurge

    Originally published: Yale Climate Connections on May 5, 2022 by Jeff Masters (more by Yale Climate Connections)  | (Posted May 07, 2022)

    2022 will likely be one of the coolest years Earth will experience in the foreseeable future; much more intense heat waves are in India and Pakistan’s future.

  • American flag, money and coins.

    Fossil fuel political giving outdistances renewables 13 to one

    Originally published: Yale Climate Connections on January 6, 2020 by Karin Kirk (more by Yale Climate Connections)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2020)

    During the latest midterm election cycle, the fossil fuel industry paid at least $359 million for federal campaign donations and lobbying.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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