What to Eat on a Burning Planet
The future of the food supply is uncertain. Let’s look at solutions.
By Eliza Barclay
The future of the food supply is uncertain. Let’s look at solutions.
By Eliza Barclay
When art changes opinions or opens hearts, it changes the world as profoundly as any legislation does.
By Margaret Renkl
Fishing the ocean’s twilight zone could unleash climate chaos.
By Porter Fox
Our food supply is more fragile than you think.
By David Wallace-Wells
Organizers must reduce the event’s carbon footprint.
By Madeleine Orr
The ethical thing to do is to bring mining back and hold it to the highest sustainability standards.
By Stephen Lezak
The data that meters generate must be standardized and widely available to be useful. Right now it mostly isn’t.
By Michael E. Murray
Southern grassland ecosystems, and nearly all the plants and animals they supported, are gone. There is hope of bringing some of them back to life.
By Margaret Renkl
Replenishing sand is likely to become economically untenable and logistically impractical. But that doesn’t spell the end of beaches.
By Sarah Stodola
Green energy is caught in red tape.
By Robinson Meyer
Naming species has been a victim of a broad shift in our scientific priorities. But we need it more than ever.
By Robert Langellier
The effects of ocean warming are vast, but often invisible.
By David Wallace-Wells
Laws aren’t keeping pace with the risks climate change poses to workers laboring under sweltering conditions.
By Terri Gerstein
There were no trees. There was no road. I was the trees, and I was the road. That darkness was like no darkness I’ve ever known.
By Margaret Renkl
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The city was the best-case scenario for congestion pricing. What does it mean that the plan was shelved?
By David Wallace-Wells
Success isn’t an Instagrammable skyline.
By Philip Oldfield
A congestion pricing plan years in the making was suddenly postponed, threatening mass transit and ensuring continued traffic nightmares.
By Tom Wright and Kate Slevin
A “polluters must pay” law would compensate the state for damages and the costs of preparing for future impacts from warming weather.
By Lee Wasserman
The hotter it gets, the more difficult it is for our bodies to cope.
By Jeff Goodell
Fossil fuel interests are spreading misinformation that renewable energy is harmful, unreliable and worse for consumers.
By Andrew Dessler
Currently, the fish are blocked from their most important spawning tributary.
By John Waldman
The data shows that Black Americans are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of climate change, from heat waves to extreme flooding.
By Jerel Ezell
A yawning hole in the Siberian landscape should be a warning about the dangers of extraction.
By Sophie Pinkham
On this impossible, glorious planet, any creature who is tuned for beauty is sure to behold it.
By Margaret Renkl
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Electric vehicles shouldn’t be a luxury item, but Biden’s tariffs mean they may remain so.
By Gernot Wagner and Conor Walsh
We need utilities to succeed now more than ever before. But the definition of success needs to evolve.
By Jonathan Mingle
The seasonal allergy hill is now an all-year mountain.
By Margaret Renkl
Instead of continuing the environmental legacy they were once known for, Republicans have ceded the fight against climate change to Democrats.
By Benji Backer
We have become so separate from the natural world that we don’t feel safe in the presence of well maintained trees.
By Margaret Renkl
“Saving the planet” is the wrong goal.
By Craig Foster
To reduce the risk PFAS pose, we need far more comprehensive mandates that test, monitor and limit the entire class of chemicals.
By Kathleen Blackburn
The return of Trump to the White House would be disastrous for the planet.
By Stephen Markley
The nuclear industry has a long history of failing to deliver on its promises.
By Stephanie Cooke
We need to grapple with the many hidden and little-understood but highly damaging effects of climate change.
By R. Jisung Park
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The global community must draw bright lines for combatants in future conflicts by creating specific protections for power grids.
By Peter Fairley
Must grief for the climate diminish you, or can it do the opposite?
By Liz Jensen
Without urgent reforms to how we educate travelers, doctors, nurses and others, we are doomed to miss textbook dengue cases.
By Deborah Heaney
To find the birds, you have to know them.
By Ed Yong
The town of Bombay Beach, Calif., offers its residents a tight-knit community in the midst of catastrophe.
By Jaime Lowe and Nicholas Albrecht
I wish I could take a walk and not see the ugly carelessness.
By Dominique Browning
Geologists just rejected a label for our troubled times. Good.
By Stephen Lezak
A new satellite will show us the full extent of methane emissions. Will we act?
By David Wallace-Wells
High-stakes geoengineering science requires transparency and accountability to the public.
By Jeremy Freeman
Standard time leads to far more vehicles colliding with deer.
By Laura Prugh
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The departing climate envoy on what the world has and hasn’t achieved.
By David Wallace-Wells
We’re entering clima incognita.
By John Vaillant
Do we really want America to become a backwater of bloated, expensive, gas-guzzling cars?
By Robinson Meyer
Flaco’s short life showed that freedom bundled with danger is worth the risk that it may be short and might end badly.
By Carl Safina
Carve the names of climate change deniers deep and large, so that those who come after us need not search the archives.
By Nate Loewentheil
Heat death and cataclysmic storms are only the start of our worries.
By David Wallace-Wells
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