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6.27.21 — The Climate Issue

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  1. The Climate Issue

    Has the Carbontech Revolution Begun?

    Science can now pull carbon out of the air. For that to make a difference, though, businesses need to find profitable places to put it.

     By Jon Gertner and Christopher Payne

    Gary L. Boddie, a team leader at Interface, tufting carpet.
    CreditChristopher Payne for The New York Times
  4. The Climate Issue

    The Little Hedge Fund Taking Down Big Oil

    An activist investment firm won a shocking victory at Exxon Mobil. But can new directors really put the oil giant on a cleaner path?

     By Jessica Camille Aguirre

    Chris James, the founder of Engine No. 1.
    CreditIan Allen for The New York Times

  1. Can Massive Cargo Ships Use Wind to Go Green?

    Cargo vessels belch almost as much carbon into the air each year as the entire continent of South America. Modern sails could have a surprising impact.

     By Aurora Almendral

    The MV Afros off New Orleans.
    CreditSpencer Lowell for The New York Times
    The Climate Issue

  2. 3 Ways to Make Transport Climate-Friendly

    Transportation is responsible for 16 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Here are three ideas that could help.

     By Aurora Almendral

    CreditIllustration by Igor Bastidas

  3. The Best Way to Clean Your Ears: With a Spoon

    Doctors strongly discourage people from scraping inside their ears. But knowing better and doing it anyway is part of what makes us human.

     By Vanessa Hua

    CreditKyoko Hamada for The New York Times
    Letter of Recommendation

  4. How a Herd of Elephants Won China’s Internet

    No one is sure what caused the unexpected migration through Yunnan. But videos of their escapades became a welcome escape from the drudgery of the working world.

     By Jamie Fisher

    CreditPhoto illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban
    Screenland

  5. The Perfect Post-Pandemic Party Food: A Six-Foot Hero

    What other thing is as reliably cheerful as a sandwich that’s practically the size of an automobile?

     By Gabrielle Hamilton

    CreditDavid Malosh for The New York Times. Food stylist: Sue Li. Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas.
    Eat

  1. Should I Hang Out With Someone Whose Political Views I Hate?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether it’s hypocritical for a liberal to socialize with an increasingly extreme conservative.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditTomi Um
    The Ethicist

  2. The Pandemic Seems to Have Made Childhood Obesity Worse, but There’s Hope

    It points the way to some possible means of fighting it.

     By Kim Tingley

    CreditIllustration by Mario Meneses
    Studies Show

  3. Poem: Triage

    Reginald Gibbons writes a collection of poems that are riffs, covers, borrowings and thefts, as he calls them. But then, they are always more.

     By Reginald Gibbons and Reginald Dwayne Betts

    CreditIllustration by R.O. Blechman
    Poem

  4. How to Photograph the Moon

    Use a camera with manual controls and a zoom lens. When shooting something so far away, stability is essential.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

  5. Judge John Hodgman on the Spaghetti-Forgetter

    A reader is shocked by a friend’s lack of pasta knowledge.

     By John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

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