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Heather Souvaine HornNew Republic |
Remember when people weren’t even sure climate change was real? According to a new CBS News poll, 70 percent of Americans support the “U.S. taking...
In March 2022, U.N. delegates met in Ottawa and struck a historic agreement to produce, by the end of 2024, a legally binding treaty to “end...
Something strange is happening in the waters off the Florida Keys. For months now, thousand-pound fish with three-foot serrated beaks have been...
Spring is here, and seeds are in the ground. But what if, a year from now, all the weather patterns our food system takes for granted were suddenly...
Dozens of pieces in legacy media publications, including TNR, have looked for broader meaning in the social media frenzy over Kate Middleton’s...
The European Environment Agency this week released a meticulous 300-page report on climate risks facing the EU, and it can be summed up thus: Without...
Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods has found someone new to blame for the climate crisis: you. “We have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon in...
Last week, researchers at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health published a disturbing study linking air pollution to Alzheimer’s...
Republican Representative Pete Stauber offered a striking case study last week in the reinvigorated war on wolves. “A logger from northern St. Louis...
$11 billion is a lot of money. It’s more than the annual budget of Montana, among other states. It’s more than the loan the International Monetary...
As The Guardian reported this week, the benefits of switching to a more sustainable food system could be astronomical: worth up to $10 trillion...
Coal, steaks, gas stoves, and … halibut? You have to wonder how far off we are from a new climate culture war breaking out over the fishing...
A funny thing happened last week. A climate report revealed genuinely good news about U.S. emissions. Or did it? “U.S. Carbon Emissions Fell in 2023...
“Time is running out” is a strange sentence. It’s always true ( shush, physicists —I mean from the human perspective), and yet it’s always...
Twenty-one species were finally, after much deliberation, declared extinct in the United States last year. Only 11 other species had been declared...
Climate coverage is often caricatured as being a deluge of bad news. The truth is more complicated. While 2023 certainly had its fair share of...
Mona Ainu’u is the minister of natural resources for Niue, an island nation of about 1,600 people in the South Pacific. On Monday, she was...
You know what I really love reading while plutocrats turn the U.N. climate conference into meaningless blather ? The onslaught of seasonal service...
I was disappointed when news broke Tuesday that Pope Francis was canceling his appearance at the U.N. climate conference this week due to illness....
Is there any day of the year that tests the capacities of affluent Americans’ French-door refrigerators as much as Thanksgiving? When else do you...
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the definition of obstruction is knowing exactly...
What is the point of being king if you can’t edit your own speech? You have to imagine the thought crossed Charles III’s mind on Tuesday as he...