Robinson Meyer
A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change
Introducing Atlantic Planet
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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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Jasper Juinen / Bloomberg / Getty The Weekly Planet: What Donald Trump Taught the Electric-Car Industry
Tesla, Uber, and utilities are consolidating their power in Washington.
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Elise Amendola / AP The Weekly Planet: 5 Ways to Think About Biden and Climate Change
He could have the best chance to fight carbon pollution of any American leader in a decade.
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Callaghan O'Hare / The New York Times / ... A Dreadful New Peak for the American Pandemic
The country recorded more than 100,000 coronavirus cases on Wednesday—the highest single-day total since the pandemic began.
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Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty The Weekly Planet: How Jeff Bezos Is Spending His $10 Billion Earth Fund
These nine environmental groups are some of his first grantees.
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Maddie McGarvey / The New York Times / ... The Weekly Planet: The Secret Political Power of Fossil Fuels
Coal and fracking don’t work like other declining industries, and that matters for Democrats.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Coronavirus Surge That Will Define the Next 4 Years
Cases are rising in all but nine states. Unlike the past two waves, this one has no epicenter.
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Bruce Gilden/Magnum The Weekly Planet: The Question That Haunts Climate Advocates
It’s not “Will Donald Trump win?”
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The Atlantic Daily: Why the Climate Story Is So Exciting Right Now
There’s been a technological breakthrough in the fight against climate change, a new report confirmed this week.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why Trump’s Rapid-Testing Plan Worries Scientists
Experts were already divided on the right way to deploy new coronavirus tests. Then the White House barged ahead.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Now What?
The president’s COVID-19 diagnosis raises a number of questions about when the president was infected and how many other people in the White House might be sick.
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Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg/Getty Trump’s Climate Self-Own
At last night’s debate, the president got confused about his own policy—and Joe Biden’s.
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Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP / Getty Wisconsin Is on the Brink of a Major Outbreak
The state’s coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are at an all-time high.
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David McNew / Getty The Most Important Number for the West’s Hideous Fire Season
A little-noticed indicator was flashing red before any of the blazes began.
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Yulia Reznikov / Getty / COVID Tracking Project ... The Fog of the Pandemic Is Returning
Millions of coronavirus tests may be happening without their results being made public.
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William Widmer / The New York Times / ... America Is Being Pummeled by Disasters
Hurricane Laura, the strongest storm on record to strike Louisiana, is yet another calamity on top of wildfires, wind storms, and the pandemic.
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Democrats Are Trying to Save Climate Policy From the Senate
The party’s senators have a new plan to face down the world’s greatest obstacle to dealing with climate change.
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Adam Maida The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found.
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