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It’s Grim

August 9, 2021

People board a ferry prior to an evacuation as a wildfire approaches the seaside village of Limni, on the island of Evia, Greece, on August 6, 2021.

The Infrastructure Deal Is Not Not a Climate Bill

August 3, 2021

A pair of railroad tracks extend into the sunset

A Major Climate Idea Is Based on Some Shaky Science

Gabriel Popkin and Quanta Magazine

July 31, 2021

An image of soil stretching into the horizon

The Infrastructure Bill Won’t Cut It on Climate

July 14, 2021

Illustration of the U.S. Capitol with a thermometer replacing the dome.

The Green New Deal Does Not, Strictly Speaking, Exist

July 13, 2021

Wind turbines spin over a Elysian landscape of green fields

Nowhere Is Ready for This Heat

June 29, 2021

An older man, Pablo Miranda, sweats in the high heat in Portland.

Our Towns: State Programs Are Laboratories for the Nation

June 5, 2021

2050 Is Closer Than 1990

May 11, 2021

An ice cliff in the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica

The Weekly Planet: An Outdated Idea Is Still Shaping Climate Policy

April 20, 2021

The U.S. and Chinese flags fly amid clouds.

The Weekly Planet: The 1 Thing to Understand About Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

April 13, 2021

Unfinished pylons for the still-incomplete high-speed rail line in Fresno, California, on July 18, 2018

Your Diet Is Cooking the Planet

April 6, 2021

A woven bag containing carrots, apples, two oranges, and some greens, against a lavender background

The Weekly Planet: 3 Ways That Biden Could Green the Financial System

March 30, 2021

Aerial view of new Nissan vehicles sit parked at a parking lot in Xiangyang, Hubei Province of China

The Weekly Planet: Why Celebrities Are Agog Over This Tiny Climate Think Tank

March 23, 2021

Grimes, in an orange wig, sits amid a field of flowers.

The Weekly Planet: Why a Climate-Denial Coalition May Be Cracking Apart

March 16, 2021

Freight cars of coal depart Wyoming in this 2006 file photo

The Weekly Planet: Biden’s Stimulus Is a Big Deal for Public Transit

March 10, 2021

A bus stop in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1997

The Weekly Planet: Why a Political Philosopher Is Thinking About Carbon Removal

March 3, 2021

The Arctic Has a Cloud Problem

Quanta Magazine and Max Kozlov

February 27, 2021

The Weekly Planet: The Great Climate Bill of 2021 Is Being Shaped Now

February 23, 2021

A view of high-voltage transmission towers

The Weekly Planet: The Big Idea From Bill Gates’s New Climate Book

February 16, 2021

Bill Gates gazes ruefully at the camera in a black-and-white photo

The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record

March 2021 Issue

photo illustration of Iceland glaciers

The Weekly Planet: A New Idea for Fighting Climate Change: Retirement Plans!

February 2, 2021

Exxon Oil Drilling Plant against a purple sky

Inevitable Planetary Doom Has Been Exaggerated

February 1, 2021

A green tree grows in front of a burnt one

How Useful Is Recycling, Really?

January 28, 2021

A plastic bag, some plastic bottles, aluminum can tops and a recycling symbol in front of a green background

The Weekly Planet: How to Think About President Biden’s Big Climate Plans

January 19, 2021

A house is seen near the massive Gavin Power Plant on September 11, 2019 in Cheshire, Ohio.

The Weekly Planet: The 5 Biggest Climate Stories of 2020

December 22, 2020

A Chinese labourer loads coal into a furnace as smoke and steam rise from an unauthorized steel factory on November 3, 2016, in Inner Mongolia, China.

The Weekly Planet: A Start-Up’s Unusual Plan to Suck Carbon Out of the Sky

November 24, 2020

The Weekly Planet: How Jeff Bezos Is Spending His $10 Billion Earth Fund

November 3, 2020

The Weekly Planet: The Question That Haunts Climate Advocates

October 20, 2020

A foreclosed house stands vacant and boarded up in Fort Myers, Florida, in this photo taken during the 2008 recession

Introducing Planet, The Atlantic’s new section devoted to climate change

October 15, 2020

The Atlantic Daily: Why the Climate Story Is So Exciting Right Now

October 15, 2020

A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change

October 15, 2020

a collage of images including the Earth from outer space, a desert scene, a polar-ice scene, and a waterfall

Scylla and Charybdis

Lawrence Weschler

October 15, 2020

A postcard showing the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with "life on a another level" written across it in red letters

Trump’s Climate Self-Own

September 30, 2020

Donald Trump on the debate stage. He is pursing his lips.

A ‘Climate Corps’ of California Volunteers

September 28, 2020

The burnt remains of trees in the hills of Santa Barbara, California, after the Cave Fire in 2019

The Electoral College Is Also a Climate Problem

September 15, 2020

All That Performative Environmentalism Adds Up

August 31, 2020