Democrats Are Shockingly Unprepared to Fight Climate Change
There’s no magic bill waiting in the wings—and no quick path to arriving at one.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters The Cambridge Analytica Scandal, in 3 Paragraphs
What it means for Facebook, for President Trump’s world, and for every American
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Daniel Lombroso / The Atlantic YouTube Removes the 'Hail, Trump' Video From Search
It said The Atlantic’s footage, which captured alt-right members giving Nazi salutes, was “borderline content” under its hate-speech policy. It restored the video after being questioned on Monday.
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Krista Trinder Canadian Amateurs Discovered a New Type of Aurora
It’s named Steve.
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Andrew Aitchison / Pictures Ltd. / Corbis / ... Why It’s Okay to Call It ‘Fake News’
“We can’t shy away from phrases because they’ve been somehow weaponized.”
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Krista Kennell / Stone / Catwalker / Shutterstock ... The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News
Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter, penetrating further, faster, and deeper into the social network than accurate information.
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David Ryder / Reuters Maybe Blue States Won’t Take Serious Action on Climate Change
An important carbon-tax proposal dies in the Washington statehouse.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters They're Here to Fix Climate Change! They’re College Republicans.
"A lot of young conservatives are frustrated by the false choice between no climate action and a big government regulatory scheme."
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Parts of the Arctic Spiked to 45 Degrees Above Normal
Meanwhile, Europe is bitterly cold.
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Shutterstock / Thanh Do / The Atlantic The Air Pollutants in Your Medicine Cabinet
A new study finds that many household goods degrade air quality more than once thought.
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Issei Kato / Reuters So Is It Spring Yet?
Three ways of thinking (scientifically) about the East Coast’s ridiculous heat
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Thom Baur / AP The Righteous Anger of the Parkland Shooting’s Teen Survivors
Students have mourned and rallied the public after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High that left 17 dead.
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Dominic Favre / AP To Survive, These Animals Must Lose Their Camouflage
How can the snowshoe hare and Arctic fox thrive in a climate-changed world, where there’s less snow to blend in with?
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Instagram Will Now Tell You When Someone Screenshots Your Story
The social network is splitting into two.
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Reuters Does Climate Change Cause More War?
A new paper questions the growing body of evidence that weather fluctuations can prompt wars, but researchers have doubts about its value.
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Sean Gardner / Reuters The World Spends $400 Billion Propping Up Oil Companies. Is That Bad?
A new study says: It depends who’s writing the check.
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Bruno Kelly / Reuters In Trump's First Year, the U.S. Lost Almost 10,000 Solar Jobs
But energy experts say the industry isn’t suffering because of the president’s policies—yet.
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USGS What Scientists Learned From Strapping a Camera to a Polar Bear
Hours of film showed the animals just living life—and suggested that, in the age of climate change, their day-to-day existence may get much harder.
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Reuters Trump Doesn't Mention Climate Change in His State of the Union
“We have endured floods, and fires, and storms,” he said, without saying what made them all worse.
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AP Shrugging Toward Doomsday
Experts warn that the world is now as dangerous as it was at the height of the Cold War. Many Americans already know it.
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Jorge Silva / Reuters What Happens If We Start Solar Geo-Engineering—and Then Suddenly Stop?
It might be worse than letting climate change play out.
