Sriram Madhusoodanan

The air was thick and humid on an early February morning when I finally touched down in Colombo, Sri Lanka. As I exited the airport doors, I was hit with a flood of familiar memories that only grew in the coming days. In almost every way – the cool sea breeze, the smell of afternoon rains and food-laced thick with familiar spices and coconut – Sri Lanka brought me back to my early childhood spent in the idyllic, verdant foothills of Kerala on India’s southwest coast. Yet there was one way in...

Dear reader, As I write this message, I’m sitting in my home office in Western Montana, looking out my window at the gray skies and fallen leaves that portend the beginnings of winter. And yet, my spirit (and indeed my jetlagged brain) are thousands of miles away in tropical Belém, Brazil, where the UN climate talks are entering the final stretch. And so, I am thinking of the many US Climate Action Network (USCAN) members who are still at the talks – staying up late at night to comb through...

COP30, taking place November 10–21 in Belém, Brazil, marks three decades of global climate negotiations. For the first time ever, the United States will be absent from the table.