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  1. politics
    New York May Become the First State to Ban Gas in New BuildingsAs part of Albany’s new budget agreement, all newly constructed buildings would have to produce zero-emissions, barring oil and natural gas.
    By Nia Prater
  2. early and often
    On the First Earth Day, Environmentalism Wasn’t PartisanOver 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
  3. life after warming
    How to Live in a CatastropheIn search of a way to think clearly about the planetary crisis.
    By Elizabeth Weil
  4. business
    When Smoke Gets in Your WineGrowers, vintners, and scientists are scrambling to protect California’s prized Napa Cab from the aftertaste of wildfires.
    By Benjamin Wallace
  5. tomorrow
    Why Is the World Ignoring the Latest U.N. Climate Report?The creeping normalization of the apocalypse.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  6. environment
    Lessons From My Year of Pests and VerminSince leaving New York, battling household intruders has become my new normal. Weirdly, all the ants, flies, and mice have made me feel more human.
    By Eve Peyser
  7. california oil spill
    Dead Birds Wash Ashore After Huge California Oil Spill126,000 gallons have leaked into the ocean in Orange County.
    By Benjamin Hart
  8. the human menace
    Humans Have Officially Killed Off the Ivory-Billed WoodpeckerThe U.S. will declare the bird and 22 other species extinct. There may be many more to come.
    By Benjamin Hart
  9. environment
    Maybe Let’s Not Try to Clone Wooly Mammoths Right NowA private firm wants to reanimate the extinct giants to fight climate change. Perhaps we should tackle the problem more directly.
    By Matt Stieb
  10. bugs
    What Happens When All the Bugs Die?Bee ecologist Dave Goulson imagines a world without creeping things.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  11. plastic
    Maine Makes U.S. Recycling Actually Work AgainA new law shifts the responsibility to producers after years of poor recycling rates due to China’s decision not to import plastic waste.
    By Matt Stieb
  12. book excerpt
    The Female Inmates Fighting California’s Wildfires“Your feet have a pulse of their own. Your face feels like it’s about to melt off.”
    By Jaime Lowe
  13. environment
    Keystone XL Pipeline CanceledThe developer is ending the controversial pipeline project, which would have pumped 800,000 barrels of Canadian crude oil to Nebraska per day.
    By Paola Rosa-Aquino
  14. environment
    ‘Sea Snot’ Wreaking Havoc on Coast of TurkeyThe sludge, which is discharged from overfed algae and does in fact look like snot, has blocked fishing and threatens sea life.
    By Paola Rosa-Aquino
  15. our climate
    India’s Effort to Fight Climate Change Involves CheetahsIf it works, the plan to bring the big cat back to the subcontinent could help treat two environmental crises at once.
    By Matt Stieb
  16. just asking questions
    Suzanne Simard Changed How the World Sees TreesThe pathbreaking ecologist on what she’s learned about interspecies collaboration, tree sentience, and nature’s resilience.
    By Robert Moor
  17. environment
    The Magic MolekuleThere has never been a better business (or planetary) climate in which to sell a product designed to calm and stoke your anxieties about dirty air.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  18. environment
    Biden Admin Rescinds Trump Rule Allowing ‘Industry to Kill Birds With Impunity’The Department of the Interior has undone a Trump-era rule which gutted protections for migratory birds killed by energy companies.
    By Matt Stieb
  19. climate change
    COVID Took a Toll on Coal, Clearing the Way for a Green RecoveryThe pandemic has created an opening for durable emissions reductions if governments steer recovery in a green direction.
    By Eric Levitz
  20. life after warming
    After Climate AlarmismThe war on denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  21. life after warming
    California Can’t Afford to Wait for Climate ActionThe horrific fires of 2020 are just a preview. No matter what we do, two to four times as much land area will soon burn annually in the West.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  22. life after warming
    California Has Australian Problems NowThe extreme wildfires the state is battling are apocalyptic heralds of climate change. And the scariest part is that they could be worse.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  23. environment
    Trump Administration Pushes Huge Environmental Rollbacks in Midst of PandemicLast week, the administration allowed polluters to self-regulate during the crisis. Now it is expected to enact a major cut to car emission standards.
    By Matt Stieb
  24. business
    Inside the Fossil-Fuel Industry’s Plan to Profit From Climate ChangeI went to one of Shell’s private meetings and took notes.
    By Malcolm Harris
  25. environment
    Trump’s Interior Dept. Reportedly Edited Documents to Say Climate Change Is GoodAn Interior official edited nine policy reports with debunked claims — fitting a larger administration pattern of undermining climate science.
    By Matt Stieb
  26. life after warming
    What Coronavirus Teaches Us About Climate ChangeAdaptation is not enough.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  27. environment
    Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Pledges $10 Billion to Fight Effects of Climate ChangeIt’s a substantial figure from the founder of a company that reportedly threatened to fire employees who publicly condemned its carbon footprint.
    By Matt Stieb
  28. fracking
    Will a Fracking Ban Doom Democrats in Pennsylvania?The political risks of running on the policy may outweigh the substantive benefits, given the dearth of Congressional support for a universal ban.
    By Eric Levitz
  29. feature
    A Year’s Diary of Climate ReckoningSome scientists say the best way to combat climate change is to talk about it. For 2019, my New Year’s resolution was to do just that.
    By Emily Raboteau
  30. environment
    The NAACP Confronts Its Sordid Relationship With Big PollutersThe storied civil-rights organization is trying to find its way again. But it has some obstacles of its own making.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  31. donald trump
    Trump Admits He ‘Never Understood Wind,’ Attacks Windmills AnywayWatch Trump deliver a deranged rant on the downsides of windmills and the vastness of the universe.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  32. the future issue
    In 2029, I Will Worry About the WindWhat will happen when 40 mph winds become the norm in New York?
    By Heidi Julavits
  33. environment
    Trump’s EPA Agenda Is Wildly Unpopular. Dems Should Make It a 2020 Issue.Air pollution kills 100,000 Americans each year. Voters hate it. Trump is trying to make the problem worse. So why don’t Democrats talk about it?
    By Eric Levitz
  34. environment
    Trump Admin’s War on Public Health Comes for Science Informing EPA Policy-MakingBy targeting the use of confidential records in public-health research, the EPA could hinder researchers’ ability to propose data-driven legislation.
    By Matt Stieb
  35. wildfires
    Everything We Know About the California WildfiresHundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate in both Northern and Southern California.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  36. life after warming
    This Is What a Calm California Wildfire Season Looks Like NowA dozen wildfires are burning, and the state is at the mercy of the wind.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  37. environment
    It’s Official: Trump Revokes California’s Power to Regulate Automobile EmissionsIt’s a sign of the administration’s adamant opposition to action on climate change, even at the expense of conservative states-rights principles.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. state of the world
    It’s Greta Thunberg’s WorldBut it’s still burning. The extraordinary rise of a 16-year-old, and her Hail Mary climate movement.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  39. climate change
    Jonathan Franzen’s Climate Pessimism Is Justified. His Fatalism Is Not.The novelist is right that we are very unlikely to keep warming below two degrees Celsius. He’s badly wrong about what that means.
    By Eric Levitz
  40. climate change
    Leaked Draft of U.N. Climate Report: Warming Oceans ‘Poised to Unleash Misery’By “misery,” the IPCC draft means 280 million displaced people, flood damages magnified 1,000-fold, and the melting of emission-packed permafrost.
    By Matt Stieb
  41. environment
    Trump Wants to Log Alaska’s Tongass, World’s Largest Temperate Rain ForestTrump reportedly wants to log the massive Tongass National Forest, though it already has a much greater economic impact supporting salmon fisheries.
    By Matt Stieb
  42. foreign affairs
    Bolsonaro Wants Macron Apology Before Accepting Help Fighting Amazon FiresThe demand comes after Macron lashed out at Bolsonaro, who pretty much called the French President’s wife ugly.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  43. life after warming
    The Glimmer of a Climate New World OrderUntil the G-7, the nations of the world had never before chosen to punish bad behavior on climate change. That may not change all that much — yet.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  44. life after warming
    The Political Status Quo Is No Match for Climate ChangeAs the Amazon rainforest burns at an alarming rate in Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Jay Inslee’s climate change presidential candidacy flames out.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  45. just asking questions
    Obama’s Deputy Interior Secretary on the Gutting of the Endangered Species ActFormer deputy Interior secretary David J. Hayes discusses how rollbacks to the law fit with the administration’s disdain for environmental regulation.
    By Matt Stieb
  46. life after warming
    Disaster Upon DisasterFlooding and tornadoes in the Midwest. Drought and extreme heat in India. The climate future is already here, we just can’t bear to look.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  47. life after warming
    We May Be Dooming Ourselves With Climate NIMBYismThe uneven incentives of climate action are driving the world to inaction. There may be no way to escape the trap.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  48. corruption
    EPA Science Said Trump’s Coal Rule Would Kill 1,400. So the EPA Ditched Science.Trump’s coal policy had an estimated death toll so high his administration couldn’t defend it. So the EPA is engineering a lower estimate.
    By Eric Levitz
  49. life after warming
    Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again. And It Will Never End.A bulletin from our climate future.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  50. interesting times
    Andrew Sullivan: Who Should Be Allowed to Compete in Women’s Sports?The debate is legitimate and important. But some of the arguments being made in major publications are patently false.
    By Andrew Sullivan
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