environment

May 10, 2022

Three suburban houses submerged in floodwater

Ideas

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

Bill Spindle

May 8, 2022

Science

Man’s Other Best Friend

Amber Dance

May 7, 2022

Science

Americans Are Missing a Key Stratum of Modern Knowledge

Kendra Pierre-Louis

May 4, 2022

A young man stares at an old-fashioned globe

Science

Humans Can’t Quit a Basic Myth About Dog Breeds

Katherine J. Wu

April 28, 2022

Science

We Created the ‘Pandemicene’

Ed Yong

April 28, 2022

Two smokestacks are spewing cartoon viruses into the sky.

Planet

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

Robinson Meyer

April 27, 2022

An image of a globe with two intersecting arrows

Science

Alert! Polar Bear Incoming

Andrew Chapman

April 23, 2022

A radar scanner with a polar bear pictured inside

Books Briefing

The Inner Lives of Animals

Nicole Acheampong

April 22, 2022

A goat and a cockatiel conversing with each other

Planet

Dimming the Sun Could Be Climate Science’s Trolley Problem

Robinson Meyer

April 20, 2022

Planet

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

Robinson Meyer

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.

Science

What Humans Can Learn From Nature’s Biggest Hibernators

Chris Woolston

April 10, 2022

A hibernating mother bear and her three-month-old cub

Science

What Can One Disease Do to a Landscape?

Ed Yong

April 7, 2022

A puma, vicuñas, and a condor, with blue squiggly lines linking them

Science

Have Americans Been Mercilessly Squashing a Creepy Bug for Nothing?

Abigail Gruskin

April 6, 2022

a spotted lanternfly wings through the blue sky

Planet

The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead

Robinson Meyer

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.

Science

Naked Mole Rats Have a Very Strange Status Symbol

Katherine J. Wu

April 5, 2022

a naked mole rat moving toward the camera through a small tunnel

Ideas

All Creatures Great and Small

George Packer

April 3, 2022

Science

The War in Ukraine Is Also a Climate Problem

Tim Lydon

April 3, 2022

Science

The World’s Biggest Bee Isn’t Out of the Woods Yet

Oliver Milman

April 2, 2022

An illustration of a tiny man looking through a handheld telescope at a giant bee

Science

Who Moved My Seed?

Katherine J. Wu

April 1, 2022

a northern olingo taking seeds off a Zamia pseudoparasitica plant

Planet

The Left’s Climate Playbook Is Already Outdated

Robinson Meyer

March 30, 2022

Politics

The Green-Energy Culture Wars in Red States

Ronald Brownstein

March 30, 2022

A map of the U.S. is shown with red states and their relationship to green energy sources

Science

You Try Constricting Your Prey and Breathing at the Same Time

Katherine J. Wu

March 24, 2022

Ideas

Save the Forests—Especially the Five Biggest Ones

John Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy

March 22, 2022

A forest on the shore of a lake in Canada

Science

Climate Change Is Making Allergy Season Even Worse

Yingxiao Zhang and Allison L. Steiner

March 20, 2022

Flowers with ominous clouds in the background.

Science

The World Has One Big Chance to Fix Plastics

Rebecca Altman and Tridibesh Dey

March 15, 2022

two plastic cups, a plastic tray, a plastic fork and knife, and crumpled plastic wrap

Science

The Freeloading Boyfriends That Just Won’t Let Go

Katherine J. Wu

March 14, 2022

a male harlequin toad clasping a female toad from behind

Technology

Feeling Herd

Ian Bogost

March 13, 2022

A woman hugging a cow with shining lights.

Planet

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

Robinson Meyer

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.

Science

The False Promise of Plastic Recycling

Ula Chrobak

March 5, 2022

Science

A Sicker, Poorer, and Less Abundant World

Robinson Meyer

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.

Work In Progress

Forget ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’

Derek Thompson

February 25, 2022

Science

The One Group of People Americans Actually Trust on Climate Science

Dan Schwartz

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.

Science

North America’s Largest Rodent Is on the Move

Kylie Mohr

February 20, 2022

Planet

The White House Is Going After One of Climate Change’s Thorniest Problems

Robinson Meyer

February 16, 2022

A pencil illustration of Joe Biden on a green background

Books

America’s Love-Hate Relationship With the Bald Eagle

Nathaniel Rich

March 2022 Issue

portrait of a bald eagle looking to the right and perched on a branch

Sections

The Print Edition

As the Climate Changes, So Does Fiction

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

Man’s Other Best Friend

Americans Are Missing a Key Stratum of Modern Knowledge

Humans Can’t Quit a Basic Myth About Dog Breeds

We Created the ‘Pandemicene’

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

Alert! Polar Bear Incoming

The Inner Lives of Animals

Dimming the Sun Could Be Climate Science’s Trolley Problem

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

What Humans Can Learn From Nature’s Biggest Hibernators

What Can One Disease Do to a Landscape?

Have Americans Been Mercilessly Squashing a Creepy Bug for Nothing?

The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead

Naked Mole Rats Have a Very Strange Status Symbol

All Creatures Great and Small

The War in Ukraine Is Also a Climate Problem

The World’s Biggest Bee Isn’t Out of the Woods Yet

Who Moved My Seed?

The Left’s Climate Playbook Is Already Outdated

The Green-Energy Culture Wars in Red States

You Try Constricting Your Prey and Breathing at the Same Time

Save the Forests—Especially the Five Biggest Ones

Climate Change Is Making Allergy Season Even Worse

The World Has One Big Chance to Fix Plastics

The Freeloading Boyfriends That Just Won’t Let Go

Feeling Herd

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

The False Promise of Plastic Recycling

A Sicker, Poorer, and Less Abundant World

Forget ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’

The One Group of People Americans Actually Trust on Climate Science

North America’s Largest Rodent Is on the Move

The White House Is Going After One of Climate Change’s Thorniest Problems

America’s Love-Hate Relationship With the Bald Eagle