The Insider Newsletter

New York City electric bus | Photo by NYC MTA

Last week, New York City passed groundbreaking legislation that will make the city's fleet, the largest in the nation, 100 percent electric. Let's use this example to prioritize electric cars and buses that don't pollute our air and climate nationwide.

Photo courtesy of Bureau of Land Management

Mature and old-growth forests are one of this country's greatest resources. These trees provide critical habitat for wildlife, prevent erosion and flooding, protect our drinking water, and are an essential climate solution. But they're at risk.

Youth Climate March | Photo by Lisa Reiser

This September shattered records for global heat. The window is closing for bold climate action. But that’s where you come in: Supporting the Sierra Club ensures that we can continue working in state and federal courts to protect our country’s bedrock environmental laws, champion clean energy solutions to the climate crisis, defend communities from air and water pollution, and provide equitable access to the outdoors.

Illustration by Amber DuBoise-Shepherd

Across the United States, Native tribes are recovering their homelands after centuries of violent land lust. Each of those territorial recoveries is part of a larger movement captured by two words: Land Back.

Dry lakebeds are a result of rising temperatures.

The planet is currently 1.3°C hotter on average annually than it was before the Industrial Revolution. Breaching 1.5°C does not mean the planet would stay there, but "whether or not we can get to net zero and remove enough carbon from the atmosphere to bring temperatures back down by the end of the century is very much an open question and would involve a huge amount of political will."