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© Getty Images Our nation’s need to become resilient to the impacts of climate change intensifies every day. Our resilience challenge leaps to our TV screens with increasing frequency — when forest fires rage across the West, storms batter the Gulf Coast, droughts and flooding events punish cities and rural communities alike, and polar weather shuts down the Texas power system. Such events reveal the depths of our vulnerability to the stresses and shocks of climate change, which threatens our food, energy, water, transportation and health security — and ultimately, our economy and nati...

Tim Profeta is the director of Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and a co-chair of the Climate 21 project.

For a landmark moment in the global effort to stave off catastrophic climate change, Joe Biden’s “climate day” at the White House was rather low-key. The US president bumped elbows with his newly appointed climate tsar, John Kerry, who he called his “best buddy”, then gave a short speech before perfunctorily signing a small stack of executive orders, donning his mask and striding out without taking any questions. The vision laid out in the...

26 Jan 2021 President Joe Biden is expected to announce sweeping policies on Wednesday to address so-called manmade climate change, including putting millions of acres of federal land off-limits for domestic energy production and elevate environmental concerns to a national security issue. On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order to put a 60-day pause on new drilling leases on federal land but has indicated a permanent ban could be on the way. According to the Congressional Research Service the federal government owns and manages roughly 640 million acres of land in the Uni...

President Biden on Wednesday will direct federal agencies to determine how expansive a ban on new oil and gas drilling on federal land should be, part of a suite of executive orders that will effectively launch his agenda to combat climate change, two people with knowledge of the president’s plans said Monday.