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Biden’s Biggest Idea on Climate Change Is Remarkably Cheap

February 9, 2022

A man in a hoodie holding a solar panel in front of a gray background

The Paradox of Sour Food

Katherine J. Wu

February 8, 2022

a face made of lemons, limes, and Sour Patch Kids

These Animals Are Feasting on the Ruins of an Extinct World

February 8, 2022

Giant sponges at Mount Karasik, surrounded by starfish and worms.

Florida’s Bonefish Are Riddled With Human Drugs

Natasha Gilbert

February 6, 2022

An image of a bonefish

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.

How Can Something So Small Live So Long?

January 23, 2022

Satellites Are Spotting the Beached Whales We Never Would Have Found

January 22, 2022

A beached whale

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.

A Human Can Befriend an Octopus. Can an Octopus Befriend a Human?

January 16, 2022

It’s Not Just Manchin

January 12, 2022

How Bad Are Plastics, Really?

January 3, 2022

Gold plastic champagne flutes and white cutlery falling through the frame

You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Get a Hamster Drunk

December 26, 2021

Three hamsters sitting at a bar

The Next Disaster Coming to the Great Plains

December 26, 2021

USA. Stratford, California. 2013. A man repairs his dry well.

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

Climate Change Is Going to Be Gross

December 18, 2021

A view of the sea with people swimming, on the Asian side of Istanbul.

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.

Every Night, Hordes of Sea Creatures Rise From the Deep

December 11, 2021

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

Plankton May Have Escaped ‘Survival of the Fittest’

December 5, 2021

A Billion Sea Creatures Cooked to Death

December 4, 2021

Seaweed at low tide on the Oregon coast

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

Why the Energy Transition Will Be So Complicated

November 27, 2021

Illustration of a water drop with arrows.

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

No Bird Wants to Live in a Murder Nest

Katherine J. Wu

November 16, 2021

a nest with caution tape on top

The Elephant Who Could Be a Person

November 16, 2021

Close-up of Happy the Elephant's face

Pear

Erica Funkhouser

December 2021 Issue

painted illustration of pear and leaves on beige background

Hedges Do Way More Than Block Your View

Katarina Zimmer and Knowable Magazine

November 13, 2021

A patchwork of fields on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall

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

The Atlantic Daily: Three Hints About Our Climate Future

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

November 11, 2021

Red background with a white envelope and red letter A

Nuclear Is Hot, for the Moment

November 10, 2021

Exhaust from the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 1 cooling tower drifts over the opening of Unit 2, nearing completion, in Spring City, Tenn., Oct. 8, 2014. With aging coal-burning plants in need of expensive replacements, the Tennessee Valley Authority reasons the reactor is arriving at an opportune moment — even if almost every projection made over the last 44 years has proved wrong.