Robinson Meyer
A Major but Little-Known Supporter of Climate Denial: Freight Railroads
For nearly 30 years, America’s four biggest rail companies—which move the majority of the country’s coal—have spent millions to deny climate science and block climate policy.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Why Twitter May Be Ruinous for the Left
It’s a machine for misunderstanding other people’s ideas and identities. How do you even organize that?
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Mario Tama / Getty This Is Your Life on Climate Change
2019 was the hottest year on record, with one exception.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters America’s Coal Consumption Entered Free Fall in 2019
Coal fell 18 percent last year, the largest drop ever recorded. But carbon emissions across the rest of the economy barely budged.
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David Gray / Getty Australia Will Lose to Climate Change
Even as the country fights bushfires, it can’t stop dumping planet-warming pollution into the atmosphere.
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Mega Pixel / Shutterstock / The Atlantic What the Death of iTunes Says About Our Digital Habits
We started the 2010s obsessed with our electronic hygiene—and ended them a nation of digital hoarders. Eleven ideas about the decade that killed iTunes.
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Mariana Bazo / Reuters A Field Guide for the Entire 21st Century
A new project reveals not just where birds live now—but where they’ll live decades from now.
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Reuters The Human Brain Evolved When Carbon Dioxide Was Lower
There is substantial but inconsistent evidence that as carbon-dioxide levels rise, they could affect human cognition.
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Sergio Perez / Reuters Investment Bankers Are Now Waging the War on Coal
As UN climate negotiations faltered, bankers on Wall Street brought good news for the climate. What’s even happening?
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Javier Barbancho / Reuters Dozens of States Want to Keep America’s Broken Climate Promise
States still aiming to meet U.S. climate commitments will reduce emissions 20 to 27 percent below their all-time high by 2025, a new report card shows.
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Reuters / Ognen Teofilovski 5 Big Trends That Increased Earth’s Carbon Pollution
For the third year in a row, carbon emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high.
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Hamilton / REA / Redux John Kerry’s New Bipartisan, Star-Studded ‘War’ on Climate Change
In an interview, the former secretary of state talks about the climate news that makes him want to curse, and his new alliance with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP A Big Silly Cybertruck
Can it haul stuff? Hell yeah it can. It also looks like a Pokémon.
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Erin Scott / Reuters So Has the Green New Deal Won Yet?
Since it debuted a year ago, the idea has lost, and won, and could lose again.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How to Cut U.S. Carbon Pollution by Nearly 40 Percent in 10 Years
A bill in Congress could slash American greenhouse-gas emissions. It’s even bipartisan—if you squint.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Trump Isn’t a Climate Denier. He’s Worse.
The president is withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change because he just can’t quit carbon.
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Noah Berger / AP The Smoldering State
California doesn’t know how to run a power grid in the climate century. But no one else does, either.
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NASA / Reuters The Worst Day in Earth’s History Contains an Ominous Warning
One of the planet’s most dramatic extinctions was caused in part by ocean acidification, which has become a problem in our own era.
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Mike Eliason / AP This Is What Adapting to Climate Change Looks Like
PG&E’s blackouts in California are a bleak preview of the disruptions that will become routine in a warmer world.
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Kate Munsch / Reuters Five Radical Climate Policies That Most Americans Actually Like
Most registered voters are in favor of spending trillions on weatherized buildings and renewable-energy infrastructure.
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Sergio Moraes / Reuters The Oceans We Know Won’t Survive Climate Change
Sea-level rise will become unmanageable, and life will flee the world’s tropical oceans, if carbon pollution keeps rising, a new report from the UN climate panel says.
