John Holdren

COP 24 session in Katowice, Poland

The Trump administration continues to undercut its own climate report

Climate Change

The Trump administration seems determined to ignore the findings in the recently released climate report from its own agencies.

John Holdren, President Obama's chief science advisor, says he's optimistic about the world's nations striking a strong climate deal next month in Paris, in part because both the motivation and the means to fight the climate crisis are "growing all the ti

For Obama’s top science guy, the climate outlook is partly sunny

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How climate change is altering environments as small as your backyard garden

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NASA wants your help protecting Earth from asteroids

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Obama’s rock star science team

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President’s Science Advisor Discusses Energy R&D

At the request of Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren, the US Department of Energy charts a new direction to a more efficient technology future.

America’s State of the Climate

In the wake of a Global Climate Change report issued at the White House, John Holdren, President Barack Obama’s top science advisor, tells Living on Earth that climate change could wreak havoc in the United States, and urges the world to work together to

Prioritizing Climate Solutions

The president’s science advisor and energy czar talk about how to avoid ?or accommodate ?the coming climate change crisis.

Science on Hold

The President continues to do without his choices for science advisors, John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco ?stuck in Senate limbo since anonymous holds were put on their confirmations.

Taxing Carbon Emissions

Duke Energy’s Paul Anderson recently did what no other major power company CEO has done before: he called for a national tax on carbon dioxide emissions to stave off global warming. Host Steve Curwood talks with Professor John Holdren of Harvard University about how the news is hitting Duke’s shareholders, and why an emissions tax […]