climate change survival guide

In this edition of NBCLX’s Climate Change Survival Guide, storyteller Chase Cain talks with the three co-founders of The Outdoorist Oath, which encourages outdoorists to make the community more inclusive. Research shows white Americans are three times more likely to live somewhere with easy access to the outdoors than Americans of color. The founders share moments they’ve felt excluded in...

How do we make the outdoors inclusive? And in doing so, how will that help us address climate change? Those were some of the questions I asked Teresa Baker as we hiked through Point Reyes National Seashore, the ancestral land of the Coast Miwok people. “I often call places like this my cathedral, because that’s what it is,” Teresa...

If you listen to interviews with astronauts talking about their first time seeing Earth from space, you’ll notice similarities in their reactions. “We really do all exist on one small globe. When you get out 240,000 miles, it really isn’t a very large Earth,” Frank Borman told Congress after his Apollo 8 flight. Canadian astronaut and former commander of the…

Climate change has already started eroding many of the Earth’s wonders that humans have taken for granted for centuries, from the Amazon rainforest to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. In the next part of his Climate Change Survival Guide, NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain shares how taking time to enjoy nature and be grateful for our planet can motivate us to take...

Americans are addicted to buying stuff — but consumerism doesn’t make us happy, and it also contributes to climate change, NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain explains in the next part of his Climate Change Survival Guide. So this holiday shopping season, which is already more challenging due to supply chain problems, try out alternative gift ideas, like experiences or second-hand items.

Eunice Newton Foote’s research foreshadowed how both climate change and women would be treated by society.

Researchers have been sounding the alarm on climate change since the 1800s, but time and again, these warnings have been ignored. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain takes a look at the history of climate change and how we got to this point.

In the first part of NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain’s climate change survival guide, he explains the basics of why the planet is warming and what needs to change to protect its future. Scientists agree that the safe limit of warming is only 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, and we’ve already hit 2.2 degrees. What’s more, we’re headed toward warming of 5 degrees,...