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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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.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Why Greta Makes Adults Uncomfortable
Especially in private, she sounds a lot like … a teenager.
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Costas Baltas / Reuters A Fight for the Soul of NOAA
The agency’s National Weather Service is one of the most free and reliable parts of the federal government. It must stay that way.
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Paul Sancya / AP The Left Has Reframed Democrats’ Climate Debate
Just as the 2008 primary helped form Obama’s health-care policy, 2020’s climate plans could have an influence in the long term.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters NOAA Politicized the Weather Report
The scientific agency sided with the president’s inaccurate forecast over the work of its professional staff.
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Reuters / Ueslei Marcelino The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered Once It’s Gone
The fires blazing in Brazil are part of a larger deforestation crisis, accelerated by President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters For Voters, Does Climate … Actually Even Matter?
Bernie Sanders released a massive plan for a Green New Deal this week. What’s the point of all these climate plans?
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters A Joy of Summer Is Vanishing Fast
As the climate warms up, cool summer evenings are becoming a distant memory.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Trump Is Thinking of Buying a Giant Socialist Island
The president has reportedly expressed interest in acquiring Greenland for the United States.
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Ilya Naymushin / Reuters A Worrisome Discovery in High Arctic Snowfall
Snow from the Far North can contain thousands of particles of microplastic, a new study finds.
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Tom Brenner/Getty Images Five Stories We’re Watching
Atlantic writers look ahead at gun-control momentum, Kashmir’s status change, the secrets of Jeffrey Epstein, and more.
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Brook Mitchell / Getty This Land Is the Only Land There Is
Here are seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning.
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Leah Millis / Reuters How Climate Change Could Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis
The Federal Reserve should act aggressively to reduce that risk, a leading economic historian argues.
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Scott Olson / Reuters ‘Nobody Should Get Applause for Rejoining the Paris Climate Accords’
Democrats have figured out how to talk about climate change with urgency and air real differences among the candidates’ ideas for dealing with it.
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Jim Watson / Reuters Andrew Yang Is Not Your Climate Friend
Fleeing to “higher ground” isn’t an adaptation policy.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Climate Change Can’t Be Left to the Scientists
Steve Bullock just wasn’t right.
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Rafael Marchante / Reuters No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happening Now
While parts of the world have warmed or cooled in the past, modern climate change is happening just about everywhere at the same time.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Here Comes the Bad Season
It’s not just this heat wave. July 2019 is likely to be the hottest month ever measured.
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Ford / Unicode Consortium / The Atlantic The World Is Getting a Pickup-Truck Emoji
Thanks to Ford
