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Environment
life after warming
Nov. 8, 2022
How to Live in a Catastrophe In search of a way to think clearly about the planetary crisis.
By Elizabeth Weil
gender reveals
Sept. 27, 2022
Another Gender Reveal Ends in Environmental Disaster A couple in Brazil may have contaminated one town’s water source by dyeing a 60-foot waterfall blue.
By Danielle Cohen
When Smoke Gets in Your Wine Growers, vintners, and scientists are scrambling to protect California’s prized Napa Cab from the aftertaste of wildfires.
By Benjamin Wallace
environment
Feb. 21, 2022
Lessons From My Year of Pests and Vermin Since 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
‘Being Silica’ Looks Hard at the Environmental Cost of Supertall Views Andrés Jaque’s installation at Rockefeller Center explores the material common to ultraclear glass and fracked natural gas.
By Whitney Mallett
environment
Oct. 28, 2021
The Single Sentence That Could Upend the Environmental Fight in New York The constitutional amendment on the ballot could protect the state’s air and water. Eventually.
By Caroline Spivack
california oil spill
Oct. 4, 2021
Dead Birds Wash Ashore After Huge California Oil Spill 126,000 gallons have leaked into the ocean in Orange County.
By Benjamin Hart
the human menace
Sept. 29, 2021
Humans Have Officially Killed Off the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker The U.S. will declare the bird and 22 other species extinct. There may be many more to come.
By Benjamin Hart
environment
Sept. 13, 2021
Maybe Let’s Not Try to Clone Wooly Mammoths Right Now A private firm wants to reanimate the extinct giants to fight climate change. Perhaps we should tackle the problem more directly.
By Matt Stieb
Bad News About Your Tote Bags Turns out the “ecofriendly” option is actually an environmental scourge.
By Claire Lampen
What Happens When All the Bugs Die? Bee ecologist Dave Goulson imagines a world without creeping things.
By David Wallace-Wells
Maine Makes U.S. Recycling Actually Work Again A 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
book excerpt
July 8, 2021
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
environment
June 10, 2021
Keystone XL Pipeline Canceled The 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
Khloe Kardashian’s Attempt at Environmentalism Backfired Her rant about plastic water bottles has not been well-received.
By Mia Mercado
‘Sea Snot’ Wreaking Havoc on Coast of Turkey The 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
India’s Effort to Fight Climate Change Involves Cheetahs If it works, the plan to bring the big cat back to the subcontinent could help treat two environmental crises at once.
By Matt Stieb
just asking questions
May 6, 2021
Suzanne Simard Changed How the World Sees Trees The pathbreaking ecologist on what she’s learned about interspecies collaboration, tree sentience, and nature’s resilience.
By Robert Moor
what to watch
Apr. 30, 2021
A Climate Show That’s Not All Doom and Gloom Introducing All of the Above from Sophia Li and Céline Semaan.
By Emilia Petrarca
environment
Mar. 16, 2021
The Magic Molekule There 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
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
climate change
Feb. 8, 2021
COVID Took a Toll on Coal, Clearing the Way for a Green Recovery The pandemic has created an opening for durable emissions reductions if governments steer recovery in a green direction.
By Eric Levitz
life after warming
Jan. 19, 2021
After Climate Alarmism The war on denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.
By David Wallace-Wells
Deb Haaland Could Be the First Native American Cabinet Secretary Ever Joe Biden tapped her for Interior Secretary, a position that would give her oversight over tribal lands.
By Claire Lampen
flights of fancy
Sept. 21, 2020
Do People Really Miss Flying This Much? People who miss the experience of being on an airplane are paying for flights that land exactly where they started.
By Hannah Gold
climate change
Sept. 15, 2020
Yet Another Terrifying Alarm Bell on Climate Change A massive chunk of the Arctic’s largest ice shelf has broken off and shattered.
By Hannah Gold
life after warming
Sept. 11, 2020
California Can’t Afford to Wait for Climate Action The 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
How Does This Keep Happening? Once again, a gender-reveal explosion has set off a massive wildfire, this time in California.
By Hannah Gold
life after warming
Aug. 21, 2020
California Has Australian Problems Now The 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
Oh Great, a Snowstorm in May In case you thought winter 2020 was done with us.
By Madeleine Aggeler
It’s Not Too Late to Save the Oceans Researchers say damage to the ocean could be reversed in the next three decades if we act now.
By Hannah Gold
environment
Mar. 30, 2020
Trump Administration Pushes Huge Environmental Rollbacks in Midst of Pandemic Last 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
Trump’s Interior Dept. Reportedly Edited Documents to Say Climate Change Is Good An Interior official edited nine policy reports with debunked claims — fitting a larger administration pattern of undermining climate science.
By Matt Stieb
life after warming
Feb. 26, 2020
By David Wallace-Wells
environment
Feb. 17, 2020
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Pledges $10 Billion to Fight Effects of Climate Change It’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
environment
Feb. 12, 2020
Maybe Think Twice Before Buying That Bouquet Your romantic Valentine’s Day gesture is terrible for the environment.
By Madeleine Aggeler
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
Oh No, the Platypus May Be Heading for Extinction Severe, intensifying periods of drought are wiping out Australia’s most wonderful weirdo.
By Claire Lampen
A Year’s Diary of Climate Reckoning Some 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
How to Help Fight the Australia Fires Adopt a koala, donate to on-the-ground organizations, and more.
By the Cut
australia fires
Jan. 7, 2020
By Hannah Gold
The NAACP Confronts Its Sordid Relationship With Big Polluters The storied civil-rights organization is trying to find its way again. But it has some obstacles of its own making.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
donald trump
Dec. 23, 2019
Trump Admits He ‘Never Understood Wind,’ Attacks Windmills Anyway Watch Trump deliver a deranged rant on the downsides of windmills and the vastness of the universe.
By Adam K. Raymond
the future issue
Nov. 13, 2019
In 2029, I Will Worry About the Wind What will happen when 40 mph winds become the norm in New York?
By Heidi Julavits
environment
Nov. 12, 2019
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
environment
Nov. 11, 2019
Trump Admin’s War on Public Health Comes for Science Informing EPA Policy-Making By targeting the use of confidential records in public-health research, the EPA could hinder researchers’ ability to propose data-driven legislation.
By Matt Stieb
Everything We Know About the California Wildfires Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate in both Northern and Southern California.
By Adam K. Raymond
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