Robinson Meyer
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Elaine Cromie ‘We Knew They Had Cooked the Books’
The Trump administration’s attempt to kill one of America’s strongest climate policies has been a complete debacle.
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Bettmann / Corbis / Getty Only Telephones Are Good
In Iowa and everywhere else
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Rob Robbins / United States Antarctic Program The New Video of One of the Scariest Places on Earth
For the first time, scientists have a clear view of the line where the giant Thwaites Glacier is leaking water into the ocean.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A Climate-Lawsuit Dissent That Changed My Mind
Twenty-one children brought a lawsuit arguing that the government needs to act on climate change. A federal court dismissed it.
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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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Illustration by Michael Houtz* 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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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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