Photography Has Gotten Climate Change Wrong from the Start
Smoggy-looking daguerreotypes in 19th-century London foreshadowed today’s muted smartphone photos of California fires.
Aubrey Trinnaman
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.
The Weekly Planet: What Donald Trump Taught the Electric-Car Industry
Tesla, Uber, and utilities are consolidating their power in Washington.
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.
The Weekly Planet: How Jeff Bezos Is Spending His $10 Billion Earth Fund
These nine environmental groups are some of his first grantees.
Land Managers Can’t Burn the West Fast Enough
Prescribed burns, which create buffers against larger fires, can do only so much.
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.
The Weekly Planet: The Question That Haunts Climate Advocates
It’s not “Will Donald Trump win?”
A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change
Introducing Atlantic Planet
Earth’s New Gilded Era
The world is getting hotter, and the divide between rich and poor is getting bigger.
Kill Your Gas Stove
It’s bad for you, and the environment. If you can afford to avoid it, you probably should.
Scylla and Charybdis
Beyond climate denial and despair
I’m Leaving the West Coast
The fires, smoke, and heat are no longer a fluke, but our future. The time has come for us to flee.
The United States Has Become a Disaster Area
Hurricanes in the Gulf, fires in the West, the coronavirus everywhere—the country is a mess.
The West Has Never Felt So Small
With fires raging up and down the West Coast, and the pandemic restricting travel, the instinct to bolt has nowhere to go.
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All That Performative Environmentalism Adds Up
Don’t depersonalize climate change.
A Mental-Health Crisis Is Burning Across the American West
Each fire season can compound the trauma of the one before it.
‘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.
The Concession to Climate Change I Will Not Make
I’ve never thought we should stop having children. But I will have to teach our son to wonder at the world before he learns to fear for it.
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.