The Fight Over California’s Ancient Water
It’s legal to drink 10,000-year-old water. But is it right?
Aubrey Trinnaman
Cities Really Can Be Both Denser and Greener
A classic urban trade-off might not be our destiny. That’s great news for the climate.
Suddenly, California Has Too Much Water
The state is being tossed between awful climate extremes.
How Long Until Alaska’s Next Oil Disaster?
The compromise that passed the Inflation Reduction Act has Alaskans braced for catastrophe.
The World Could Be Entering a New Era of Climate War
Runaway climate change once seemed like it could spur violence. Now a different risk has emerged.
Wait, Why Wasn’t There a Climate Backlash?
Joe Biden's energy balancing act really worked.
America Just Shrugged Off Biden’s Big Climate Law
Democrats braced for a midterm backlash to the Inflation Reduction Act. It never came.
The Paris Agreement Is Working … For Now
The world’s much-maligned climate treaty has produced some stunning results.
A Republican Congress Is Coming for Biden’s Climate Wins
If the looming GOP majority sabotages climate policy, its own voters will suffer. The party might do it anyway.
Turkey’s Honey Apocalypse Is a Warning to the World
Wildfires have devastated the country’s precious pine honey. Heat and drought could soon bring the same fate to other beekeepers.
A Plan to Cool Off the Hottest Neighborhoods
As the climate changes, hyperlocal projects are helping keep disadvantaged areas livable.
China Accidentally Made Our Gas Much Cheaper
Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID lockdowns have been an unexpected gift to Joe Biden.
Frankenstein’s Hummer
The company's new electric pickup truck is an unwieldy mix between an ambulance and a race car.
The Climate Economy Is About to Explode
A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even bigger than Congress thinks.
America’s Lost Crops Rewrite the History of Farming
Our food system could have been so different.
Honestly? The Link Between Climate Change and Hurricanes Is Complicated.
Hurricane Ian shows some symptoms of global warming. But saying anything beyond that is folly.
The Senate Just Quietly Passed a Major Climate Treaty
America is in the middle of a mini–golden Age of climate policy.
Manchin’s New Bill Could Lead to One Big Climate Win
Power lines are crucial to expanding renewables. America could finally—finally!—be about to build more of them.
The East Coast Will Not Escape Fire
Even parts of the country normally considered “wet” are drying out, with dangerous results.
Think Twice About Working for a ‘Climate Villain’
You’re not off the hook for your company’s actions.
A Very California Lesson on Just How Weird Electricity Is
The state’s record-smashing heat wave is a window into the future … and it’s okay.
It Wasn’t Just Oil Companies Spreading Climate Denial
The electricity industry knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago. It denied them anyway.
‘The Biggest Thing to Happen in International Climate Diplomacy in Decades’
The Inflation Reduction Act could change the world in at least five ways.
The EPA Just Quietly Got Stronger
The new climate bill isn’t quite “all carrots, no sticks.”
Biden’s Climate Law Is Ending 40 Years of Hands-Off Government
For America to decarbonize, it must reindustrialize.
Not Even a Single Republican Voted for the Climate Bill
The Inflation Reduction Act is unmistakably partisan. Can the GOP undo it?
Congress Just Passed a Big Climate Bill. No, Not That One.
A bipartisan act is quietly about to invest billions in boosting green technology.
History’s Greatest Obstacle to Climate Progress Has Finally Fallen
Democrats in the Senate passed a bill that would, for the first time ever, use Congress’s power to push the U.S. to decarbonize.
The Best Evidence Yet That the Climate Bill Will Work
The Senate deal would change the course of the 2020s, finally putting America’s climate goals in sight.
Seriously, What Are You Supposed to Do With Old Clothes?
There are no good solutions to the problems of closet clean-out.
Manchin and Schumer’s Astonishing Climate Deal
If passed, the energy provisions of the senators’ new bill would represent the most significant climate action in a generation.
The World Needs to Start Planning for the Fire Age
The science of when to evacuate a community—and how—is still in its infancy.
A Plan to Lower Gas Prices—And (Maybe) Help the Climate
A new White House proposal is trying to keep oil prices in the “Goldilocks zone.”
Trees Are Overrated
Preserving the world’s great expanses of grass could be essential to combatting climate change.
The Era of Climate Change Has Created a New Emotion
What word might describe losing your home while staying in one place?
We’ve Had Other Climate Defeats. This One Is by Far the Weirdest.
Seven ways of looking at where climate action goes from here
The World Is Burning Once Again
We can only adapt so much to extreme heat.
Why We Remember Floods and Forget Droughts
Instead of planning for dry conditions, Americans seem incapable of even remembering them.
Joe Manchin’s Fickleness Is a Needless Catastrophe
The senator just worsened climate change—and inflation.
Those Sequoias Didn’t Just Get Lucky
This is what preparing for wildfires looks like.
When Does the Clean-Energy Infinity Loop Start?
Digging up minerals for rechargeable batteries has a high initial cost, but eventually those minerals can be recycled indefinitely.
Whatever This Is, It Won’t Be Build Back Better
At this point, the ideal climate bill is out of the picture. Here are two ways to make sense of Democrats’ next move.
The World Is Turning Back to Coal
Two big ways carbon pollution is different this year
The Future of Mud
A Senegalese architecture firm is championing a lower-tech material than concrete to help cities prepare for climate change.
The Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Is Going to Be Very, Very Expensive
The agency can still regulate carbon pollution, just not in the most efficient, system-wide ways.
‘Greenwashing’ Isn’t About Consumers
Corporate climate action has become an employee perk
How to Be a Good Person Without Annoying Everyone
There’s a simple trick to provoking better behavior, without seeming like a self-righteous jerk.
Will These Be the Last Polar Bears on Earth?
A newly identified population in Greenland is less dependent on the vanishing sea ice. But even they can’t hold out forever.
A Hotter, Poorer, and Less Free America
In the next few weeks, Senate Democrats could fall short—for arguably the third time in 30 years—of passing a climate deal. What will that mean for the planet and the country?
Biden’s Climate Goals Rest on a 71-Year-Old Defense Law
The Defense Production Act has become an important tool as the White House’s climate policy has stalled in Congress.
Kelp Is Weirdly Great at Sucking Carbon Out of the Sky
The start-up Running Tide wants to use kelp buoys to fight climate change. The plan might not work, but it’s still a preview of our climate future.
Scotland’s Billionaires Are Turning Climate Change Into a Trophy Game
A net-zero land rush is sweeping the country, and both locals and wealthy “green lairds” are trying to buy in.
The Democrats Really Are That Dense About Climate Change
The party doesn’t even seem to realize that it’s blowing a once-in-a-decade chance to pass meaningful climate legislation.
Americans Are Missing a Key Stratum of Modern Knowledge
To understand how climate change is altering our planet, it helps to know a little Earth science.
Wheat Can’t Catch a Break Right Now
India’s giant heat wave is having ripple effects for the world’s food supply.
We Created the ‘Pandemicene’
By completely rewiring the network of animal viruses, climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers.
There’s No Scenario in Which 2050 Is ‘Normal’
The two paths to avoid the worst of climate change would still dramatically change the world as we know it.
Dimming the Sun Could Be Climate Science’s Trolley Problem
A popular idea to soften the blow of global warming might also make the world’s malaria problem even worse.
We’ve Never Seen a Carbon-Removal Plan Like This Before
Companies including Google and Facebook are pouring more than $900 million into a nascent technology that’s essential to zeroing out emissions.
The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead
It was once the pinnacle of humanity’s climate ambitions. A new UN-led climate report essentially concedes that it’s out of reach.