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Breadfruit is a staple in tropical places—and climate change is pushing its range north. Someplace in the lush backroads of San Sebastián, in...
Get ready for the EV election. The Biden administration earlier today issued a major new rule intended to spur the country’s electric-vehicle...
A bioluminescent petunia could help people recognize plants for the complex creatures they are. The gallon pot of white petunias I held on an...
Climate change is threatening to turn sublime summer stone fruits disgusting, or rob us of their pleasures entirely. Summer, to me, is all about stone...
At some point in elementary school, many American children learn that Daylight Saving Time was originally intended to give farmers an extra hour of...
America’s first climate envoy is leaving the post. The smallest hint of frustration had crept into John Kerry’s voice. We were talking about...
A second Trump term would be a disaster. And the U.S. would mostly be hurting itself. If Donald Trump wins a second term, and his administration...
His administration just handed activists a significant victory in delaying liquid natural gas exports. All of a sudden, the U.S. has become the...
For decades, scientists have debated the possibility that a vital ocean current system could plunge Europe into an abrupt cooldown. This is an...
The next climate extremes are both predictable and unprecedented, and they’re coming on fast. From a climate perspective, 2024 is beginning in...
The world is finally talking about them. For as long as the world’s diplomats have gathered to talk about slowing the march of climate change, the...
If you think it’s bad now, strap in. In January 1995, when The Atlantic published “In Praise of Snow,” Cullen Murphy’s opus to frozen...
The best the UN’s climate conference can do is set the floor for the world’s future a notch higher than before. This morning in Dubai, after a...
As Canada congratulated itself in Dubai on climate leadership, its oil executives milled about the climate conference. Like the draft agreement that...
An unofficial proposal for a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty is gaining popularity at the UN’s annual climate meeting. In the climate-change...
The UN climate summit is the one place the countries suffering most from climate change can face down the countries causing it. The size of COP28 is...
His approach to the environment: ignore it. On the last Saturday before Donald Trump took office, in January 2017, I watched the controlled chaos of...
Wealthy countries might finally pay for the climate change they caused. Today, on the opening day of COP28, the United Nations climate summit in...
Hydrogen is just another hole for natural gas to fill. In a way, the story of American natural gas is a particularly American story, one of...
We all just lived through our first 2-degree Celsius day On Friday, November 17, 2023, the Earth appeared to have crossed a threshold into new...
The math isn’t adding up. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the fight against climate change is finally going well. The clean-energy revolution...
The storm intensified to Category 5 just before it reached Acapulco. In the hours before Hurricane Otis made landfall, everything aligned to birth a...
In climate-addled places, mats of mycelium may make all the difference. The giant chestnut tree, growing in place for hundreds of years, would have...
Sometimes, a town doesn’t have to be underwater to become uninhabitable. All it has to do is be uninsurable. Cameron Parish, Louisiana, used to be...