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Climate Change
extreme weather
Feb. 22, 2024
How Fire Island Was Saved — For Now After another winter of brutal storms, the Feds stepped in with a pile of very expensive sand. But it’s just a Band-Aid.
Does Taylor Swift Really Offset Her Jet’s Carbon Footprint? Her representatives claim she buys “carbon credits” to make up for environmental damage.
New York After Snow Remembering when we could count on storms to bury trash bags and cars, and offer us a few hours of quiet.
Blazed Trails For thru-hikers, climate change is posing new, treacherous risks out in the wild. Not that that’s stopping them.
getting around
Jan. 11, 2024
Kayaking to School in Broad Channel On one block, a night of heavy rains and high tide sometimes means breaking out a boat to get around.
climate change
Dec. 14, 2023
The New Global Climate Deal Is Mostly Hot Air Fixing the climate requires cheap clean energy, not cheap words.
By Eric Levitz
Don’t Let Climate Anxiety Stop You From Having Kids The battle to save the planet shouldn’t be waged over the bodies of women or come at the cost of their personal grief.
By Anya Kamenetz
royal rumblings
Nov. 7, 2023
King Charles Forced to Deliver Speech He Hates In his first King’s Speech, the environmentalist monarch had to announce policies opposed by climate-change activists without rolling his eyes.
By Margaret Hartmann
infrastructure watch
Oct. 30, 2023
Walling Up the East Side to Save It Why the floodgates on the waterfront look the way they do.
By Christopher Bonanos
environment
Sept. 29, 2023
Scenes From a Flooded New York Subway evacuations, school day chaos, a missing mayor, and at least one fugitive sea lion.
By Curbed Staff
climate change
Sept. 27, 2023
By Tariro Mzezewa
us open 2023
Sept. 8, 2023
Maybe They Should Move the U.S. Open Back a Week Extreme heat is an enemy of good tennis, and the problem is only getting worse.
By Benjamin Hart
Having a Kid at the End of the World In the face of bleak climate future, is it okay to want a baby in the present?
By Amil Niazi
climate change
Aug. 29, 2023
Let Them Eat Icebergs The secret ingredient to Martha Stewart’s vacation cocktail? Melting glaciers.
By Tariro Mzezewa
climate change
Aug. 28, 2023
What If Wind Turbines Got a Makeover? From Western New York to Ocean City, New Jersey, fights against wind farms often begin with how they look.
By Chris Stanton
just asking questions
Aug. 11, 2023
There Will Be More Mauis Climatologist Nick Bond explains how the combination of high winds and dry grasslands makes for a dangerous wildfire formula, and not just in Hawaii.
By Matt Stieb
Florida Is One Big Hot Tub Last week, water temperatures off the coast reached triple digits.
By Danielle Cohen
climate change
July 24, 2023
8 Eye-popping Numbers From the Worldwide Heat Wave Phoenix is still melting as a massive U.S. heat dome shifts eastward.
By Matt Stieb
just asking questions
July 24, 2023
Why the Northeast Will Need to Get Used to Getting Bombed by Rain A talk with Dartmouth College’s Jonathan Winter about how to prepare for more regular floods from above.
By James D. Walsh
climate change
July 15, 2023
Can Extremely Reflective White Paint Save the Planet? Probably not, but geoengineering in some form is going to be necessary to address climate change.
By Eric Levitz
climate change
July 13, 2023
A New Order Blocking Manchin’s Pipeline Could Hurt the Climate Restricting Congress’s authority to exempt energy projects from judicial review would undermine the green transition.
By Eric Levitz
just asking questions
July 11, 2023
How Much Hotter Can It Get in the Near Future? Science writer Jeff Goodell on how unprepared humanity is for record-breaking temperatures.
By Matt Stieb
environment
June 30, 2023
It’s Aphids Those bugs swarming the city are native New Yorkers.
By Adriane Quinlan
the national interest
June 25, 2023
Community Input Is Not Always What Democracy Looks Like Climate activists are entitled to protest but not entitled to win.
By Jonathan Chait
odor events
June 12, 2023
Meanwhile, in Texas, Fresh Signs of Impending Apocalypse In our latest environmental plague, tens of thousands of dead fish washed up along the Gulf Coast this weekend.
By Bindu Bansinath
smokepocalypse
June 10, 2023
By Robert Moor
smokepocalypse
June 8, 2023
What Wildfire Smoke Does to the Human Body The Air Quality Index in New York hit a staggering 352, the worst in the world.
By Jeff Wise
smokepocalypse
June 8, 2023
The East Coast Is Choking On the Hidden Costs of Climate Change Many calculations of climate change’s economic costs have failed to account for the impacts of wildfires.
By Eric Levitz
canada wildfires
June 6, 2023
Talking to an Air-Quality Expert About That Haze Should you go outside? Wear a mask? Let us explain.
By Alissa Walker
No Water? No Subdivision. The end of Arizona’s desert sprawl may be near. It’s a good first step.
By Alissa Walker
California Is Becoming Uninsurable State Farm has put a moratorium on new home-insurance customers in the state. It’s a sign of what’s to come.
By Alissa Walker
mass transit
May 15, 2023
America’s Trains and Buses Are Speeding Toward a Cliff As COVID-relief funds dwindle and ridership remains low, mass-transit systems are poised for financial crisis.
By Eric Levitz
apocalypse wow
May 9, 2023
New Jersey Is Burning Wildfire season is starting earlier and not just on the West Coast.
By James D. Walsh
Extrapolations ’ Good Intentions Aren’t Good EnoughOnly once does the Apple TV+ series allow for the idea that in a climate emergency, there can be virtue in breaking the rules.
By Roxana Hadadi
early and often
Apr. 22, 2023
On the First Earth Day, Environmentalism Wasn’t Partisan Over the past 53 years, Republicans have turned protecting the environment into a culture-war issue. It didn’t have to be this way.
By Ed Kilgore
getting around
Apr. 20, 2023
L.A. Cops Have a Helicopter Problem The city’s aerial law-enforcement fleet is more wasteful, and just as pointless, as Kylie Jenner’s and Elon Musk’s private-jet habits.
By Alissa Walker
the national interest
Mar. 29, 2023
By Jonathan Chait
leaving no trace
Feb. 7, 2023
The Big MOOP at Burning Man A geothermal-energy project has the organization behind the eight-day rave facing off against the Bureau of Land Management.
By Molly Osberg
Our Long Local Snowmare Is Over New York City finally saw some flakes stick to the ground on Wednesday morning. Better late than never.
By Benjamin Hart
talking about the weather
Jan. 29, 2023
This Is a Snow Lover’s Nightmare New York has broken a snowless record — and there’s no end in sight to this gray misery.
By Benjamin Hart
getting around
Jan. 25, 2023
An EV in Every Driveway Is an Environmental Disaster We can’t lithium mine our way out of climate crisis.
By Alissa Walker
urban fauna
Jan. 20, 2023
There Are Dolphins in the Bronx River Maybe you don’t want to swim there, but the Parks Department says it’s good news.
By Zach Schiffman
foreign interests
Jan. 19, 2023
By Eric Levitz
Greta Thunberg Had to Be Carried Away From a Coal-Mine Protest The climate activist was briefly detained in Germany for protesting the expansion of the Garzweiler coal mine.
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
Get Ready to Be Propanefluenced It’s more than HGTV hosts. Meet the #vanlife, #cottagecore, and #milkmaid influencers boosting liquefied petroleum gas.
By Zach Schiffman
first person
Dec. 20, 2022
What Happened When I Tried to Carry the World on My Back The climate movement feels entitled to Black women’s time and energy, leading to a unique kind of burnout.
By Mary Annaïse Heglar
early and often
Dec. 8, 2022
Climate Hawks Should Have Given Joe Manchin His Pipeline Progressives must prioritize expediting the build-out of clean energy over obstructing fossil-fuel development.
By Eric Levitz
public art watch
Dec. 6, 2022
Mashed Potatoes Meet Monet Climate activists have been celebrated for defacing great paintings. Why?
By Jerry Saltz
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