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Sukree Sukplang / Reuters To Stop Global Warming, Should Humanity Dim the Sky?
The world’s top geoengineering researchers met off the record to discuss the possibility in Maine last month.
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Yves Herman / Reuters Trump and the Paris Agreement: What Just Happened?
The United States affirmed it’s definitely leaving the treaty—but not yet.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Your Smartphone Reduces Your Brainpower, Even If It's Just Sitting There
A silent, powered-off phone can still distract the most dependent users.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP What Steve Bannon Wants to Do to Google
The White House strategist reportedly wants to treat tech giants as public utilities, an idea that some Democrats also support.
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Ruben Sprich / Reuters An Inconvenient Time for An Inconvenient Sequel
Al Gore’s follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth is an honest, not-too-uplifting glimpse at this moment in climate politics—and how the sausage of global diplomacy gets made.
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Guillermo Granja / Reuters The Battle Over 2,500-Year-Old Shelters Made of Poop
A falcon war in Greenland’s frigid north is a preview of habitat contests to come.
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NASA / Reuters Are We as Doomed as That New York Magazine Article Says?
Why it's so hard to talk about the worst problem in the world
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Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters The Paris Agreement: Already Forgotten?
It’s unclear whether Trump will pay any price for leaving the treaty at the G20 conference in Hamburg.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters The First Court Victory for Environmentalists Under Trump
The EPA’s climate-focused methane rule will stay in force.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters Does the Government Track Anti-Public-Land Extremists?
Some Democrats allege that the Department of the Interior isn’t doing enough to protect public-land employees.
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Tony Gutierrez / AP The American South Will Bear the Worst of Climate Change’s Costs
Global warming will intensify regional inequality in the United States, according to a revolutionary new economic assessment of the phenomenon.
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Craig Tuttle / Getty The Map Hidden in the Pacific Northwest’s Tree Rings
Scientists have learned how to trace the path of rainstorms from the 1690s.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters Wildfires May Be More Toxic Than Scientists Thought
Researchers had to fly a plane through a smoke plume to realize this.
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Mike Segar / Reuters When Does Amazon Become a Monopoly?
The behemoth’s acquisition of Whole Foods is making some wonder whether the firm is just too big.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Standing Rock Sioux Claim ‘Victory and Vindication’ in Court
A federal judge rules that the Dakota Access pipeline did not receive an adequate environmental vetting.
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Bob Strong / Reuters Obama Conserved 1.3 Million Acres in Utah—Can Trump Undo That?
No president has shrunk a national monument in half a century.
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Google Google's New Product Puts Peer Pressure to a Sunny Use
The company’s “Project Sunroof” now shows you which of your friends have already put solar panels on their roof.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Oil Is Flowing Through the Dakota Access Pipeline
“I just closed my eyes and said: ‘Do it,’” President Trump said of approving the pipeline this week.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters Trump's Solar-Powered Border Wall Is More Than a Troll
There’s a serious policy there—and it points to a longer history of overlap between environmental and anti-immigration groups.
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Phil Coale / AP Avoiding Two Degrees of Warming 'Is Now Totally Unrealistic'
Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton scientist and longtime observer of UN climate talks, says that the world has lost its last shot at staving off dangerous global warming.
