environment

February 4, 2023

A rocklside in Greenland that killed a man in 1952

Planet

1.5 Degrees Was Never the End of the World

Emma Marris

February 1, 2023

An image of a protest sign that reads "1.5 degrees to stay alive."

Science

Labs Are Scooping Up Animals Killed by Wind Turbines

Emma Foehringer Merchant

January 29, 2023

Culture

The Meme That Defined a Decade

Megan Garber

January 26, 2023

A collage composed of the 'This Is Fine' comic as floor, walls, and ceiling of a room

Planet

The Fight Over California’s Ancient Water

Brett Simpson

January 23, 2023

Picture of a sprinkler system providing water to plants and trees at Cadiz Farms

Science

A ‘Carbon Bomb’ Lurks in America’s Marshlands

Christian Elliott

January 22, 2023

A photograph of a salt marsh -- the right side of the frame is tinged red

Science

Dust Lakes Keep Popping Up Across the West

Caroline Tracey

January 16, 2023

Science

Madagascar’s Fishers Are Stuck on Land

Ryan Lenora Brown

January 15, 2023

A man on the beach stands near several different-colored canoes.

Planet

Cities Really Can Be Both Denser and Greener

Emma Marris

January 12, 2023

Science

Can We Talk About How Weird Baby Mammals Are?

Katherine J. Wu

January 11, 2023

a human baby with a clear face, a baby cow with clear legs, a baby bat with clear legs, a kangaroo with clear arms

Science

The Ice Age Has Nothing on ‘Snowball Earth’

Chris Baraniuk

January 2, 2023

Family

What Squirrels Taught Me About Life After Divorce

Kelly McMasters

January 1, 2023

Books

Will Children’s Books Become Catalogs of the Extinct?

Tatiana Schlossberg

December 28, 2022

Fuzzy watercolor paintings of a gray whale, a yellow butterfly, and a brown bear

Science

Future Generations Might Never Get to Kiss Under the Mistletoe

Nicola Jones

December 25, 2022

Mistletoe in trees in Switzerland in front of a cloudy, snowy mountain

Science

How Glass Frogs Weave the World’s Best Invisibility Cloak

Katherine J. Wu

December 22, 2022

side by side gifs of a frog's underside; on the left, the frog is redder and harder to see through; on the right, the frog is translucent green, with a white blob in the center

Health

Consider Armadillo COVID

Yasmin Tayag

December 19, 2022

An illustration of a deer hide with dots on it.

Science

An Unmistakable Stain in America’s Most Pristine Rivers

Emily Schwing

December 18, 2022

The Salmon River in the Brooks Range runs orange in the early fall of 2020.

Science

Mumbai Has ‘Flamingo Fever’

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar

December 17, 2022

tons of pink flamingoes in front of Mumbai

Technology

Why Doesn’t Every American Have a Robot Dog?

Kaitlyn Tiffany

December 16, 2022

A photograph of three Poo-Chi devices and their little dog bones

The Atlantic Daily

What Fusion May Mean for a Carbon-Free Future

Jerusalem Demsas

December 15, 2022

Transmission towers near the CenterPoint Energy power plant in Houston, Texas

Technology

TikTok Told Me to Adopt a Pigeon

Sarah Sloat

December 15, 2022

A close-up photo of a pigeon with people in the background

Science

Surprise! Snakes Have Clitorises

Katherine J. Wu

December 13, 2022

the head of a snake with gold, brown, and black scales on red sand

Science

Some Indigenous People Crushed Up Dead Clams. Maybe We Should Too?

Jen Schmidt

December 10, 2022

Science

‘Biological Strip Malls’ Have Taken Over the Planet

Ashley Braun

December 10, 2022

Science

The ‘Mother of the Year’ Who Starved for 53 Months

Sabrina Imbler

December 5, 2022

Sketch of a pink octopus with flecks of other colors

Science

Fur Seals Made a Tremendous Comeback. That Might Be a Problem.

Sean Mowbray

December 3, 2022

fur seal nestled in lush vegetation in Antarctica

Ideas

Tracking the Mountain Lion That Ate a Chihuahua

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

November 29, 2022

A photo illustration of the wildlife biologist Jeff Sikich using a radio antenna to track an animal

Science

Dolphins Might Have Elite Spice Tolerance

Sarah Keartes

November 26, 2022

Ideas

New York’s Grand Dame of Dog Poisoning

Pagan Kennedy

November 25, 2022

A photo collage of Juliet Tuttle with a parrot surrounded by newspaper clippings from the 1930s.

Planet

The World Could Be Entering a New Era of Climate War

Robinson Meyer

November 23, 2022

Global

Where U.S.-China Competition Leaves Climate Change

Michael Schuman

November 21, 2022

Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden side by side

Science

An Evolutionary Magic Trick Is Popping Up Everywhere

Carrie Arnold

November 20, 2022

Ideas

The Other Climate-Change Art Protest

Morgan Ome

November 20, 2022

People holding large red fabric tapestries in front of an oil field in Kern County, California.

Science

The Galápagos’s Secret Weapon Against Climate Change

Richard Kemeny

November 19, 2022

Science

You’ve Almost Certainly Been Duped by a Bird

Katherine J. Wu

November 17, 2022

a black bird with a white feathered tail and an open beak looking to the left

Poem

The Squirrel

Ellen Bass

November 16, 2022

A split image collage, with half a purple blob on the left side and half a squirrel on the right. Text at the bottom and to says "I board up my mind, pound in the nails"

Sections

The Print Edition

A Fisherman Died in 1952. Could Climate Change Be to Blame?

1.5 Degrees Was Never the End of the World

Labs Are Scooping Up Animals Killed by Wind Turbines

The Meme That Defined a Decade

The Fight Over California’s Ancient Water

A ‘Carbon Bomb’ Lurks in America’s Marshlands

Dust Lakes Keep Popping Up Across the West

Madagascar’s Fishers Are Stuck on Land

Cities Really Can Be Both Denser and Greener

Can We Talk About How Weird Baby Mammals Are?

The Ice Age Has Nothing on ‘Snowball Earth’

What Squirrels Taught Me About Life After Divorce

Will Children’s Books Become Catalogs of the Extinct?

Future Generations Might Never Get to Kiss Under the Mistletoe

How Glass Frogs Weave the World’s Best Invisibility Cloak

Consider Armadillo COVID

An Unmistakable Stain in America’s Most Pristine Rivers

Mumbai Has ‘Flamingo Fever’

Why Doesn’t Every American Have a Robot Dog?

What Fusion May Mean for a Carbon-Free Future

TikTok Told Me to Adopt a Pigeon

Surprise! Snakes Have Clitorises

Some Indigenous People Crushed Up Dead Clams. Maybe We Should Too?

‘Biological Strip Malls’ Have Taken Over the Planet

The ‘Mother of the Year’ Who Starved for 53 Months

Fur Seals Made a Tremendous Comeback. That Might Be a Problem.

Tracking the Mountain Lion That Ate a Chihuahua

Dolphins Might Have Elite Spice Tolerance

New York’s Grand Dame of Dog Poisoning

The World Could Be Entering a New Era of Climate War

Where U.S.-China Competition Leaves Climate Change

An Evolutionary Magic Trick Is Popping Up Everywhere

The Other Climate-Change Art Protest

The Galápagos’s Secret Weapon Against Climate Change

You’ve Almost Certainly Been Duped by a Bird

The Squirrel