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
What the Las Vegas Sphere reveals about the climate crisis.
By Ed Conway
Climate change, ecology and fire suppression have combined to bring us the return of the “urban firestorm.”
By David Wallace-Wells
Cultivated meat offered a delicious fantasy: that we can consume our way out of climate catastrophe.
By Joe Fassler
A federal judge’s ruling may hold a glimmer of hope for the Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
By Margaret Renkl
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Pollution is contributing to Black Americans’ decision to move South, in a trend that is as worrying as it is moving.
By Adam Mahoney
In expanding pockets of the West, citizens across the political spectrum are finding common ground as they adjust to living beside wolves.
By Erica Berry
Information about climate risks is becoming increasingly valuable to companies that want to sell it.
By Justin S. Mankin
The justices should leave it to federal agencies to resolve ambiguities Congress creates when it writes laws those agencies enforce.
By Jody Freeman and Andrew Mergen
To make it through the gathering disquiet, I will need embodied connection.
By Margaret Renkl
The Elfstedentocht, the Dutch skating race through the 11 historic cities of Friesland, hasn’t been held in 26 years. But nobody can admit that it’s gone.
By Benjamin Moser
The phrase “wintry mix” fills me with despair. But even so, the lack of cold and ice in 2023 felt unsettling.
By Elizabeth Spiers
President Biden seems nervous about sealing a deal that would improve the health and quality of life of millions of Americans through a stricter rule on truck emissions.
By Andrea Marpillero-Colomina
Expanding herds of cashmere goats are causing severe damage to grasslands on the Mongolian plateau in Central Asia.
By Ginger Allington
The idea that free markets can solve societal problems and that climate change can be fixed without regulation is a ruse.
By Auden Schendler
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As the climate crisis grows ever more urgent, the U.A.E. is championing a dangerously seductive approach to the problem.
By Alex Simon
The spare but overpowering landscape celebrated by Willa Cather is one of the most endangered ecosystems on the planet.
By Carson Vaughan
The fate of a square mile of Wyoming state land, surrounded by federal land, rests with state officials.
By Ted Kerasote
Backpedaling on the environment is not just bad for the future; it’s bad for political prospects.
By Paul Hockenos
Rich countries must bear responsibility for the climate crisis and help developing nations end their reliance on fossil fuels.
By Erle C. Ellis
In the short term, recycling might be the best option we have against our growing waste crisis.
By Oliver Franklin-Wallis
The Aral Sea’s demise matters to us all.
By Jacob Dreyer
Electric vehicles really are better for the environment than hybrid vehicles that have both gas and electric motors.
By Stephen Porder
Efforts to bring these animals back to America can be a much-needed redemptive act of healing.
By Dayton Duncan
Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate.
By Kate Marvel
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America needs to invest in mining and build resilient supply chains for the building blocks of electric batteries.
By James Morton Turner
The rebuilding of Paradise, Calif., feels like a test of human fortitude.
By Erin Brethauer and Tim Hussin and Mark Arax
Rich countries must deepen their assistance to developing countries in the path of the weather pattern.
By Amir Jina, Jesse Anttila-Hughes and Gordon McCord
The help Americans receive after disasters isn’t just inadequate; it’s complicated to navigate and painfully slow to arrive.
By Samantha Montano and Damon Winter
The simple act of picking up trash, I’ve found, has an outsize effect on my worrying over climate change and ecological catastrophe.
By Ron Currie
By doubling down on fossil fuels, Exxon Mobil is choosing to profit through the most harmful way to the rest of us.
By Jeff D. Colgan
There is increasing evidence that global warming has accelerated over the past 15 years rather than continued at a gradual, steady pace.
By Zeke Hausfather
With his latest missive, he has moved from grief and exhortation to a more strident position.
By David Wallace-Wells
Countries like the Maldives want to move away from fossil fuels but have been stymied by the high cost of solar projects.
By Shauna Aminath
Instead of receiving funds to address the climate crisis, African nations are borrowing money to rebuild at a cost up to eight times that of the rich world.
By William Ruto, Moussa Faki Mahamat, Akinwumi Adesina and Patrick Verkooijen
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The climate establishment is declaring war on fossil fuels, demanding we keep them in the ground.
By David Wallace-Wells
Despite their intent to make coastal communities safer, Florida’s building codes can actually complicate long-term resilience efforts.
By Sarah Stodola
Why hasn’t the federal government stepped in to remove his cattle from federal land?
By Christopher Ketcham
The state’s governor has asked the Supreme Court to resurrect a widely opposed plan rejected by the federal government.
By Carl Safina and Joel Reynolds
We have betrayed the millions of other species with whom we share this leafy paradise with an extractive culture.
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
The president’s answer to the climate crisis has been, in one word, more. But more won’t cut it with fossil fuels.
By Lydia Millet
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