Robinson Meyer
A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change
Introducing Atlantic Planet
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Hannah Yoon / The New York Times / … The Pandemic Is Finally Softening. Will That Last?
With vaccination racing the spread of COVID-19 variants, America could be at a tipping point.
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Stephanie Keith / Getty The Weekly Planet: How to Think About President Biden’s Big Climate Plans
Democrats have learned not to peg their hopes to a single major climate bill.
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George Frey / Getty The Weekly Planet: What 2020’s Bizarre Economy Taught Us About Climate Change
U.S. carbon pollution hasn’t been this low in decades—that’s the bad news.
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John Moore / Getty ‘Secure the Capitol’ Misses the Point
More roadblocks and police officers won’t stop the next attempted coup.
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Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic America Has Not Fixed Its Deadliest Pandemic Errors
The COVID Tracking Project’s extensive, daily data collection reveals the simple yet devastating ways the U.S. has failed.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty The Weekly Planet: The 5 Biggest Climate Stories of 2020
Joe Biden’s victory isn’t on the list.
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Florian Gaertner / Getty The Weekly Planet: The Only Way to Achieve Carbon-Neutral Flight, According to an Airline
United Airlines is betting on carbon removal as the key to climate-friendly air travel.
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American Stock Archive / Getty The Weekly Planet: What Extremely Muscular Horses Teach Us About Climate Change
You can’t understand the history of American energy use without them. A new visual history puts them in context.
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Go Nakamura / Getty The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point
A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.
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Matt Anderson / Getty The Weekly Planet: The Best Way to Donate to Fight Climate Change (Probably)
These are the most effective carbon offsets and climate-advocacy groups, according to a new evidence-based group.
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Sean Gallup / Getty The Weekly Planet: A Start-Up’s Unusual Plan to Suck Carbon Out of the Sky
An online-payments company may fund more carbon removal than anyone else.
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Mohd Rasfean / Getty / The Atlantic The Final Pandemic Surge Is Crashing Over America
For the first time, the U.S. recorded 1 million COVID-19 cases in one week.
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Jasper Juinen / Bloomberg / Getty The Weekly Planet: What Donald Trump Taught the Electric-Car Industry
Tesla, Uber, and utilities are consolidating their power in Washington.
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Elise Amendola / AP The Weekly Planet: 5 Ways to Think About Biden and Climate Change
He could have the best chance to fight carbon pollution of any American leader in a decade.
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Callaghan O'Hare / The New York Times / … A Dreadful New Peak for the American Pandemic
The country recorded more than 100,000 coronavirus cases on Wednesday—the highest single-day total since the pandemic began.
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Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty The Weekly Planet: How Jeff Bezos Is Spending His $10 Billion Earth Fund
These nine environmental groups are some of his first grantees.
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Maddie McGarvey / The New York Times / … The Weekly Planet: The Secret Political Power of Fossil Fuels
Coal and fracking don’t work like other declining industries, and that matters for Democrats.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Coronavirus Surge That Will Define the Next 4 Years
Cases are rising in all but nine states. Unlike the past two waves, this one has no epicenter.
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Bruce Gilden/Magnum The Weekly Planet: The Question That Haunts Climate Advocates
It’s not “Will Donald Trump win?”
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The Atlantic Daily: Why the Climate Story Is So Exciting Right Now
There’s been a technological breakthrough in the fight against climate change, a new report confirmed this week.
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