Emma Marris
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Sources: … Conservation Tends to Ignore the Most Common Type of Life
The field frets about endangered polar bears and tigers. Why not also bacteria?
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Saumya Khandelwal/Redux America Is Missing Out on the Biggest EV Boom of All
Consider the electric rickshaw
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Illustration by Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; Getty The West Agreed to Pay Climate Reparations. That Was the Easy Part.
At this point, the UN fund is “an empty bucket.” How full could it get?
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Daniel Zender / The Atlantic Crypto Is Mostly Over. Its Carbon Emissions Are Not.
The environmental toll of Bitcoin could be even higher this year than last.
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Tatlow / laif / Redux The Alaska Oil Project Will Be Obsolete Before It’s Finished
The world might not have enough renewable energy to power everything by 2029, but we’ll have more than enough to keep the lights on without additional drilling.
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Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; Getty You Should Build a Frog Pond
Will someone please think of the urban amphibian?
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James Wakibia / SOPA / Getty The World Is Finally Cracking Down on ‘Greenwashing’
The plan to stop companies from fudging their climate goals is fundamentally flawed.
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Heeb / laif / Redux A Basic Premise of Animal Conservation Looks Shakier Than Ever
Are we trying to save animals in the wrong places?
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Zhou Mu Xinhua / eyevine / Redux Bring on the Boring EVs
The next step toward electric cars just becoming cars is playing out on your TV screen.
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Emily Elconin/Bloomberg/Getty Fighting Climate Change Was Costly. Now It’s Profitable.
Just how far can this climate momentum take us?
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Fayez Nureldine / AFP/Getty 1.5 Degrees Was Never the End of the World
The most famous climate goal is woefully misunderstood.
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Jan Richard Heinicke / laif / Redux Cities Really Can Be Both Denser and Greener
A classic urban trade-off might not be our destiny. That’s great news for the climate.
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Courtesy of Groundwork Hudson Valley A Plan to Cool Off the Hottest Neighborhoods
As the climate changes, hyperlocal projects are helping keep disadvantaged areas livable.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic When Does the Clean-Energy Infinity Loop Start?
Digging up minerals for rechargeable batteries has a high initial cost, but eventually those minerals can be recycled indefinitely.
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David McNew / Getty People Deserve to Know Their Houses Are Going to Burn
The old way of insuring against fires isn’t working anymore.
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Oscar Del Pozo / AFP / Getty The Utility of White-Hot Rage
Living in the era of climate change might make us feel guilt, or grief, or anger. How do those who think about these problems every day keep going?
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Soomin Jung K-pop Fans Have a New Nemesis
Young, progressive listeners are making a stink about carbon-torching NFTs. But will greener versions be enough to get them on board?
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Hulton Archive; Adam Maida / The Atlantic We’re Heading Straight for a Demi-Armageddon
What happens when we do something—but not enough—to stop climate change?
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Gillian Flaccus / AP The West Can End the Water Wars Now
Far-right radicals in Southern Oregon are threatening to bust open an irrigation canal. Instead, the region could be a model for managing watersheds in a warmer world.
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Martin Lukas Ostachowski / Pixabay / Pexels The Nature You See in Documentaries Is Beautiful and False
Nature documentaries mislead viewers into thinking that there are lots of untouched landscapes left. There aren’t.
