Environment | Opinion

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

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

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