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The record-smashing global heat of the past year has been driven partly by an El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean. The good news is that El...
In his must-read book The Heat Will Kill You First , author Jeff Goodell talks to an Arizona State University infrastructure expert about the...
If you’ve ever carried a credit-card balance, you know the pain of watching interest charges accumulate, turning what was once a high but manageable...
When King Canute commanded the tide to stop, he was trying to make a point about the limits of his powers. It seems Florida Governor Ron DeSantis...
The toxic smoke choking swathes of the Midwestern US this week is a helpful reminder to Americans that Canada exists, and its wildfire season has...
If you are still uncertain about Donald Trump’s stance on climate change, then the fact that fossil-fuel companies are helping to pay his legal...
If the Car Crash Fairy offered you a deal that would lower your odds of getting in a car accident, but the trade-off was that any accidents you did...
Elon Musk may not like to talk about this, but Tesla Inc. probably wouldn’t be one of the world’s biggest automakers today if not for a $465...
If you were shopping for toaster ovens and your choice was between one that posed a 1% chance of setting your house on fire and a competing one that...
In the fictional world of the P.D. James novel Children of Men and its movie adaptation, humanity has lost the ability to reproduce and thus faces...
Imagine you were running for king of the world on a platform of slashing economic growth by 20% forever. You’d be lucky to get your own family to...
Many Americans were surprised last year when smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away turned their air toxic. There’s no excuse for anybody to be...
There’s an old proverb about how the lack of a horseshoe nail can doom a horse, then a rider, then an army, then a kingdom. In terms of the US...
A fun thing about the dot-com and crypto booms was how companies with no previous connection to dot-com or crypto added those terms to their names and...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell often argues the central bank has no business making climate-change policy. But it should be careful it doesn’t...
Picture a future of electric cars everywhere, including your driveway, along with the charging stations necessary to keep them running. Head downtown...
Fifty years ago, the term “energy security” meant “we need oil and we need it now.” In the modern world, where energy comes in many forms,...
Ten years ago, former Treasury Secretary and Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Hank Paulson warned of a “climate bubble,” noting parallels...
Which do you think costs more: Giving outdoor employees a break every now and then for some shade and water or stopping all work periodically while...
As you can tell from the reader numbers on my columns, it is often very difficult to get people to consume content about the climate. In other news, a...
Mario Cuomo once said politicians should campaign in poetry but govern in prose. President Joe Biden’s climate policy seems to have taken that to...
One of global warming’s more colorful dangers is the possibility that melting permafrost will revive prehistoric diseases and trigger horrific...
Spring doesn’t officially begin for more than three weeks, but it came early to Chicago this week, with temperatures hitting a pleasant 74 degrees...
Back in the 1990s, political guru James Carville said he wanted to be reincarnated as the bond market because it could “intimidate everybody.”...
You really have to hand it to Arizona: Even as its population has doubled and it has suffered through a decadeslong megadrought, the state uses less...
Unless thirsty aliens come and take it, Earth’s water isn’t going anywhere. It’s just becoming increasingly difficult for thirsty humans to...
If you were forced to guess the one political issue that will decide the 2024 US election based on sheer volume of news coverage, you might pick...
In February 2015, early in what was once the hottest year in human history, the former Senator James Inhofe addressed his colleagues on the Senate...
If you’re like me and look forward to snow about as much as you look forward to outpatient surgery, then recent winters have been almost blissful in...
Without really meaning to, farmers in a small California valley have spent the past 30 years in an experiment to see what happens when the groundwater...
For most of the centuries humans have despoiled Earth’s climate, the consequences have felt more like a “tomorrow” problem than a “now”...
It’s nearly impossible to get every country in the world to agree on anything. But at the latest United Nations climate talks, leaders representing...
Like over-caffeinated college students, Sultan Al Jaber, John Kerry and other COP28 delegates pulled an all-nighter to turn what could have been an...
If there’s one climate-change solution everybody seems to agree on, it’s that trees are good. Even Donald Trump, who has called climate change a...