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Whatever This Is, It Won’t Be Build Back Better

July 13, 2022

Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia

The World Is Turning Back to Coal

July 6, 2022

A smoking smokestack stands behind piles of coal at the coal-fired Onyx Kraftwerk Farge power plant.

A Hotter, Poorer, and Less Free America

June 15, 2022

The Statue of Liberty's torch has dark smoke pouring out of it

Kelp Is Weirdly Great at Sucking Carbon Out of the Sky

May 25, 2022

A man in a kelp hatchery

Frogs Keep Mating With the Wrong Things

Katherine J. Wu

May 17, 2022

a yellow cururu toad amplexing a boot

The Democrats Really Are That Dense About Climate Change

May 11, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during the annual Aspen Ideas Climate Conference at the The New World Center on May 09, 2022, in Miami Beach, Florida.

As the Climate Changes, So Does Fiction

Heather Hansman

May 10, 2022

Three suburban houses submerged in floodwater

The World Has No Choice but to Care About India’s Heat Wave

May 8, 2022

Cooling towers in India

Americans Are Missing a Key Stratum of Modern Knowledge

Kendra Pierre-Louis

May 4, 2022

A young man stares at an old-fashioned globe

There’s No Scenario in Which 2050 Is ‘Normal’

April 27, 2022

An image of a globe with two intersecting arrows

Dimming the Sun Could Be Climate Science’s Trolley Problem

April 20, 2022

A close-up image of a mosquito

We’ve Never Seen a Carbon-Removal Plan Like This Before

April 13, 2022

Steam billows from the PacifiCorp Hunter power plant in Castle Dale, Utah, on Feb. 6, 2019. It sits just behind a snowy hill.

The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead

April 6, 2022

Kaitara Kautu, a net fisherman whose home flooded during last year's king tide in Betio, a town on the island of South Tarawa in Kiribati, stands on a rock in the middle of turquoise-colored water; a net rests on his left shoulder, and large ships sit in the distance.

The War in Ukraine Is Also a Climate Problem

April 3, 2022

The Left’s Climate Playbook Is Already Outdated

March 30, 2022

A flare from a fracking well

Climate Change Is Making Allergy Season Even Worse

Yingxiao Zhang and Allison L. Steiner

March 20, 2022

Flowers with ominous clouds in the background.

On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Would Be a Climate Problem

March 9, 2022

View of a cloud plume after the nuclear detonation codenamed Mike, Enewetak, Marshall Islands, November 1, 1952. The detonation, the first of two in 'Operation Ivy,' was also the first successful hydrogen bomb.

A Sicker, Poorer, and Less Abundant World

March 1, 2022

A lone tree stands among smoke in this aerial view of a forest fire in Porto Jofre, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, taken on September 5, 2021.

The One Group of People Americans Actually Trust on Climate Science

February 22, 2022

Shel Winkley, the chief meteorologist for the PinPoint Weather Team at KBTX news staton, posed for a portrait at the KBTX studios in Bryan, Texas on February 2, 2022.

Not Even Free Money Can Fix a Carbon Tax

January 26, 2022

A quarter in a small pile of coal ash

The Atlantic Explores the Future of Living With Climate Change in New Planet Series

January 25, 2022

The Utility of White-Hot Rage

January 25, 2022

Demonstrators shout slogans during a global youth climate action strike in Madrid.

Lumber Prices Are off the Rails Again. Blame Climate Change.

January 19, 2022

Tug boats move rafts of timber along the coast of Vancouver Island in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, on Monday, May 10, 2021.

It’s Not Just Manchin

January 12, 2022

Some Reasons to Be Hopeful

Molly Jong-Fast

December 23, 2021

We’re Heading Toward a Very American Climate Tragedy

December 22, 2021

A $100 bill among a cloud of fumes

Snowless Winters Are Already Here

December 19, 2021

Colorado mountains sparsely covered with snow

A New Estimate of the ‘Most Effective’ Way to Fight Climate Change

December 15, 2021

Members of Sunrise Movement stand in front of the Capitol during a press conference.

A Legendary VC Has a Plan for Solving Climate Change

December 8, 2021

Five icons—an EV charger, power lines, a cow, a stand of trees, and a lump of coal—above SAT-style fill-in bubbles

Climate Advocates Are Gambling With Fate

December 1, 2021

This photo taken on November 14, 2020, shows an employee working in the workshop of a lithium battery manufacturing company in Huaibei, eastern China's Anhui province

It’s Not You, It’s Climate Change

Katherine J. Wu

November 23, 2021

black-browed albatrosses in the Falklands

The Seven Lawmakers Who Will Decide the Climate’s Fate

November 17, 2021

Senator Joe Manchin's face

Climate Hype Might Be the Ticket to Decarbonization

November 12, 2021

A collage of the Earth, a smokestack, John Kerry, a tree, and the Glasgow skyline

The Real Reason Behind Bolsonaro’s Climate Promises

November 12, 2021

Can 3.5 Percent Save the Planet?

November 8, 2021

Protesters hold signs while marching in a demonstration near the COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.

We’re Heading Straight for a Demi-Armageddon

November 3, 2021

A hand holds up a globe with red and black squiggles coming off it like fire