Robinson Meyer
A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change
Introducing Atlantic Planet
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Justin Sullivan / Getty The Weekly Planet: The Great Climate Bill of 2021 Is Being Shaped Now
The game before the game has started.
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Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times / ... Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan
What went wrong? The Lone Star State made three fundamental errors.
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Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images for Bill & ... The Weekly Planet: The Big Idea From Bill Gates’s New Climate Book
Call it the “Gates Rule.”
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Ali Al Robaee / EyeEm / Getty The Weekly Planet: Hail! It’s America’s Most Underrated Climate Risk
It’s smashing, in the bad way.
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courtesy of GM A Super Bowl Ad That the Biden Presidency Made Possible
GM has cast its electric vehicles as normal American cars, in a normal Super Bowl ad. Here are seven ways to think about that.
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Greg Smith/CORBIS/Corbis/Getty The Weekly Planet: A New Idea for Fighting Climate Change: Retirement Plans!
If you’re retiring in the 2060s, you should make sure you can enjoy the 2060s.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Is Heading Toward a Strange In-Between Time
Americans can plan for the pandemic’s end in the fall. What happens between now and then?
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Jorg Greuel / Getty The Weekly Planet: Why Biden Is Buying 645,000 New Cars
The president’s most interesting climate proposal yet hasn’t appeared in an executive order.
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Hannah Yoon / The New York Times / ... The Pandemic Is Finally Softening. Will That Last?
With vaccination racing the spread of COVID-19 variants, America could be at a tipping point.
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Stephanie Keith / Getty The Weekly Planet: How to Think About President Biden’s Big Climate Plans
Democrats have learned not to peg their hopes to a single major climate bill.
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George Frey / Getty The Weekly Planet: What 2020’s Bizarre Economy Taught Us About Climate Change
U.S. carbon pollution hasn’t been this low in decades—that’s the bad news.
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John Moore / Getty ‘Secure the Capitol’ Misses the Point
More roadblocks and police officers won’t stop the next attempted coup.
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Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic America Has Not Fixed Its Deadliest Pandemic Errors
The COVID Tracking Project’s extensive, daily data collection reveals the simple yet devastating ways the U.S. has failed.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty The Weekly Planet: The 5 Biggest Climate Stories of 2020
Joe Biden’s victory isn’t on the list.
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Florian Gaertner / Getty The Weekly Planet: The Only Way to Achieve Carbon-Neutral Flight, According to an Airline
United Airlines is betting on carbon removal as the key to climate-friendly air travel.
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American Stock Archive / Getty The Weekly Planet: What Extremely Muscular Horses Teach Us About Climate Change
You can’t understand the history of American energy use without them. A new visual history puts them in context.
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Go Nakamura / Getty The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point
A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.
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Matt Anderson / Getty The Weekly Planet: The Best Way to Donate to Fight Climate Change (Probably)
These are the most effective carbon offsets and climate-advocacy groups, according to a new evidence-based group.
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Sean Gallup / Getty The Weekly Planet: A Start-Up’s Unusual Plan to Suck Carbon Out of the Sky
An online-payments company may fund more carbon removal than anyone else.
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Mohd Rasfean / Getty / The Atlantic The Final Pandemic Surge Is Crashing Over America
For the first time, the U.S. recorded 1 million COVID-19 cases in one week.
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