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2 weeks ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
As the cofounder and leader of the World Weather Attribution initiative, climate scientist Friederike Otto is painfully aware of how climate change can magnify the destructive power of extreme weather. Otto is a pioneer in attribution science, a branch of climate science that enables researchers to better understand how climate change is influencing specific weather events, such as the Los Angeles wildfires that erupted in early 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
The environment has always figured prominently in the nonfiction work of Alan Weisman. In the best-known and bestselling of his five previous books, “The World Without Us” (2007), the planet, devoid of humans, became the lone protagonist.
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3 weeks ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported a different winner. Yale Climate Connections apologizes for the error. The 2024 novel “And So I Roar” by Abi Daré has been awarded the first-ever Climate Fiction Prize. The £10,000 ($13,240) prize, organized by a storytelling organization called Climate Spring, recognizes U.K. authors whose novels address the problem. “Many of us already see tackling climate as important,” the organizers wrote on the prize website.
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1 month ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
From the seeds planted by the first Earth Day celebrated over 50 years ago, an astonishing variety of environmental shoots have sprouted and spread. As a result, an eclectic mix of titles is required to celebrate Earth Month in 2025. This month’s bookshelf offers four different but related takes on the environmental holiday. The first take updates readers on the top priorities of the first Earth Day: clean air, clean water, and clean, as in litter-free, land.
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2 months ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
Environmental journalist Mike Tidwell had traveled the world, witnessing the deadly impacts of a changing climate. Then he saw that climate change was threatening the life he had made for himself and his family in an idyllic town on the District of Columbia’s northeast border.
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2 months ago | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
The Yale Climate Connections bookshelf for March, also known as Women’s History Month, began to take shape when I saw the announcement for “Mother Creature Kin: What We Learn from Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling” by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder. The early April release, I realized, would be the sixth title published on motherhood and climate change in the last two years.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
corporateknights.com | Michael Svoboda
Yale Climate Connections’ bookshelf for February begins with a title that beautifully captures the mission of climate activism during Black History Month. “People the Planet Needs Now” tells the stories of 25 scientists and activists working to protect and support their Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities in a changing climate.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
Yale Climate Connections’ bookshelf for February begins with a title that beautifully captures the mission of climate activism during Black History Month. “People the Planet Needs Now” tells the stories of 25 scientists and activists working to protect and support their Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities in a changing climate.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
Even in death, former President Jimmy Carter added to his legacy of public service. His example fortified us for the challenge of standing up for climate action in the face of Trump’s swift moves to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, again. Through the many tellings of his life story, as he lay in state in Plains, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C., Americans relearned two important lessons from Jimmy Carter.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
yaleclimateconnections.org | Michael Svoboda
Trump 2.0, the second presidential administration headed by Donald Trump, could pose unprecedented challenges not just for climate action but also for social justice and democratic governance. Successfully meeting these challenges will require the cultivation of distinctly different skills and practices – and critically reviewing what we think we know. Not unlike meeting the challenges of a changing climate.
