April 10, 2020 | Council on Foreign Relations The coronavirus pandemic has reduced global carbon emissions, but that progress won’t last...

April 2, 2020 | Council on Foreign Relations Although local communities decide where and how development occurs, the federal...

March 30, 2020 | E-International Relations with William Kakenmaster The coronavirus outbreak has upended life for billions of people in...

January 24, 2020 | The Hill Rain arrived last week, giving weary Australians a break from fighting the bushfires. But with ruins still...

January 21, 2020 | CNN The Trump administration's appalling pattern of ignoring climate risks reminds me of a case I once handled as a...

January 2020 | Foreign Affairs with co-author Leonardo Martinez-Diaz Ever since climate change became a concern for policymakers and ...

January 9, 2020 | The Brief Australia is suffering from one of its worst fire seasons in history, with more than two dozen people...

December 07, 2019 | The Daily Beast with co-author Leonardo Martinez-Diaz Shelling out for disaster relief is a no-brainer for...

India Inc. | November 15, 2019 Having the right information can change outcomes. In 2004, ten-year-old Tilly Smith from Great Britain...

October 29, 2019 | CNN One sure way to tell a Californian from an Easterner is to ask about fire. Californians know a great deal about...

September 25, 2019 | The Bulletin In advance of the UN Climate Summit this month, the Global Commission on Adaptation, chaired by former...

July 10, 2019 | National Academy of Engineering with co-author Bilal M. Ayyub Each year, governments and the private sector invest...

June 27, 2019 | The Hill What’s Russia President Vladimir Putin up to? That question gets asked a lot, especially when it comes to...

May 14, 2019 | Governance In An Emerging New World The Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii sits two miles above sea level and over 2,200...

April 19, 2019 | Hoover Institution Press with co-authors Douglas Mason, Joanne R. Potter, Molly Hellmuth, Bilal Ayyub, and Jack W. Baker...

April 10, 2019 | The Hill Climate change is a formidable enemy. It has burned our forests, stormed our coastal communities and dropped...

April 4, 2019 | EOS with co-authors Richard Moss, Bilal Ayyub, Mary Glackin, Katharine L. Jacobs, Jerry Melillo, T. C. Richmond, Lynn...

March 26, 2019 | Taylor and Francis Online Ellicott City, a historic patch of Maryland nestled between the Tiber and Patapsco rivers,...

March 12, 2019 | The Hill Actions have consequences, often unintended ones. When government policies carry unintended consequences,...

March 2, 2019 | CNN Imagine an ordinary courtroom scene. The judge sits above the crowd wearing a black robe while one of the lawyers...

February 15, 2018 | CNN The nation got its first chance to digest the details of the Green New Deal when Democrats proposed a nonbinding...

September 23, 2018 Human trafficking is a horrendous crime: it degrades human security and undermines the rights of people around the...

July 30, 2018 | Pacific Council on International Policy Coastal communities are on the front lines of a changing climate. Rising, ...

June 27, 2018 | The Hill As record-setting rains pummel South Texas and Ellicott City struggles to recover from another deadly flood, we...

June 19, 2018 | Hoover Institution Press Drawing from a series of discussions convened by the Hoover Institution, the Stanford Woods...

May 24, 2018 | Eureka As soon as it hit in October 2017, officials knew the Tubbs Fire was serious. “It’s real bad,” said Cal Fire...

May 17, 2018 | Axios President Trump’s Defense Department cut all but 1 of 23 mentions of “climate change” from the final draft of a...

February 19, 2018 | Taylor and Francis Online What do we mean when we speak in terms of “resilience?” Why has “resilience” become the...

January 20, 2018 | NY Daily News New York City just filed suit in federal court against five multinational oil companies: ExxonMobil,...

January 17, 2018 | Foreign Policy At two minutes to noon on Sept. 1, 1923, the ground began to tremble in Tokyo and nearby Yokohama. A...

December 20, 2017 | CNN As this year comes to a close, 2017 is on track to set the all-time record for the most billion-dollar weather...

October 21, 2017 | Newsweek Americans have been settling the west for over one hundred and fifty years. Today, we tame it one suburban...

September 23, 2017 | Houston Chronicle "National security and climate change? My students just don't see the connection." This is what...

September 21, 2017 | The Bulletin In 1953, the North Sea Flood in the Netherlands killed over 1,800 people, damaged tens of thousands...

September 12, 2017 | The Hill Each year the president of the United States receives a briefing from the Federal Emergency Management...

August 25, 2017 | The Hill It’s nearly Labor Day weekend and for millions of Americans that means heading to the coasts to enjoy a...

August 22, 2017 | Newsweek President Trump’s decision to kill the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard may not sound like a big deal,...

July 31, 2017 | The Hill There is a house outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that is prone to flooding. It’s worth close to $56,000. Over...

June 2, 2017 | Lawfare In the middle of the last century, Dr. Murdock Head, a George Washington University professor, acquired an old...

June 1, 2017 | Lawfare My business just picked up. I wish it hadn’t. I am in the business of finding better ways to prepare for the...

May 19, 2017 | The Hill In Fairbanks, Alaska, last week, the United States passed the Arctic Council gavel to Finland. Started over...

May 18, 2017 | Lawfare Ninety-nine years ago, on March 11, 1918, mess cook Albert Gitchell reported sick to the camp infirmary in Fort...

April 5, 2017 | Newsweek Why does the administration want to hide information from the American people? Within minutes of Donald Trump...

March 29, 2017 | The Hill In March 2013, four-star Admiral Samuel Locklear III sat down with a Boston Globe reporter in a Cambridge...

February 22, 2017 | Lawfare Even where speakers took pains to avoid uttering it, the name “Donald Trump” still dominated the 53rd Munich...

January 30, 2017 | The Hill President Donald Trump ran his campaign on promises of complete overhaul, including the promise to “drain...

December 19, 2016 | Lawfare After campaigning on the promise to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, last week...