environment

June 11, 2022

A man drags a dear carcass across a road to his car

Science

What Are Ocean Predators Doing So Deep Underwater?

Stephanie Pain

June 5, 2022

Close up of Whale Shark swimming up from the deep blue ocean.

Ideas

Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work

Judith Enck and Jan Dell

May 30, 2022

Plastic bottles form a recycling symbol.

Science

Rats Learned to Hide and Seek. Scientists Learned Way More.

Ed Yong

May 26, 2022

Planet

Kelp Is Weirdly Great at Sucking Carbon Out of the Sky

Robinson Meyer

May 25, 2022

Science

A Radioactive Gas Is Lurking Beneath the Permafrost

Chris Baraniuk

May 21, 2022

Science

America Did Too Good a Job at Saving Canada Geese

Marion Renault

May 19, 2022

Science

Frogs Keep Mating With the Wrong Things

Katherine J. Wu

May 17, 2022

Technology

Steelmaking Cannot Go On This Way

Marcello Rossi

May 15, 2022

Planet

The Democrats Really Are That Dense About Climate Change

Robinson Meyer

May 11, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during the annual Aspen Ideas Climate Conference at the The New World Center on May 09, 2022, in Miami Beach, Florida.

Books

As the Climate Changes, So Does Fiction

Heather Hansman

May 10, 2022

Three suburban houses submerged in floodwater

Ideas

The World Has No Choice but to Care About India’s Heat Wave

Bill Spindle

May 8, 2022

Science

Man’s Other Best Friend

Amber Dance

May 7, 2022

Science

Americans Are Missing a Key Stratum of Modern Knowledge

Kendra Pierre-Louis

May 4, 2022

A young man stares at an old-fashioned globe

Science

Humans Can’t Quit a Basic Myth About Dog Breeds

Katherine J. Wu

April 28, 2022

Science

We Created the ‘Pandemicene’

Ed Yong

April 28, 2022

Two smokestacks are spewing cartoon viruses into the sky.

Planet

There’s No Scenario in Which 2050 Is ‘Normal’

Robinson Meyer

April 27, 2022

An image of a globe with two intersecting arrows

Science

Alert! Polar Bear Incoming

Andrew Chapman

April 23, 2022

A radar scanner with a polar bear pictured inside

Books Briefing

The Inner Lives of Animals

Nicole Acheampong

April 22, 2022

A goat and a cockatiel conversing with each other

Planet

Dimming the Sun Could Be Climate Science’s Trolley Problem

Robinson Meyer

April 20, 2022

Planet

We’ve Never Seen a Carbon-Removal Plan Like This Before

Robinson Meyer

April 13, 2022

Steam billows from the PacifiCorp Hunter power plant in Castle Dale, Utah, on Feb. 6, 2019. It sits just behind a snowy hill.

Science

What Humans Can Learn From Nature’s Biggest Hibernators

Chris Woolston

April 10, 2022

A hibernating mother bear and her three-month-old cub

Science

What Can One Disease Do to a Landscape?

Ed Yong

April 7, 2022

A puma, vicuñas, and a condor, with blue squiggly lines linking them

Science

Have Americans Been Mercilessly Squashing a Creepy Bug for Nothing?

Abigail Gruskin

April 6, 2022

a spotted lanternfly wings through the blue sky

Planet

The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead

Robinson Meyer

April 6, 2022

Kaitara Kautu, a net fisherman whose home flooded during last year's king tide in Betio, a town on the island of South Tarawa in Kiribati, stands on a rock in the middle of turquoise-colored water; a net rests on his left shoulder, and large ships sit in the distance.

Science

Naked Mole Rats Have a Very Strange Status Symbol

Katherine J. Wu

April 5, 2022

a naked mole rat moving toward the camera through a small tunnel

Ideas

All Creatures Great and Small

George Packer

April 3, 2022

Science

The War in Ukraine Is Also a Climate Problem

Tim Lydon

April 3, 2022

Science

The World’s Biggest Bee Isn’t Out of the Woods Yet

Oliver Milman

April 2, 2022

An illustration of a tiny man looking through a handheld telescope at a giant bee

Science

Who Moved My Seed?

Katherine J. Wu

April 1, 2022

a northern olingo taking seeds off a Zamia pseudoparasitica plant

Planet

The Left’s Climate Playbook Is Already Outdated

Robinson Meyer

March 30, 2022

Politics

The Green-Energy Culture Wars in Red States

Ronald Brownstein

March 30, 2022

A map of the U.S. is shown with red states and their relationship to green energy sources

Science

You Try Constricting Your Prey and Breathing at the Same Time

Katherine J. Wu

March 24, 2022

Ideas

Save the Forests—Especially the Five Biggest Ones

John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy

March 22, 2022

A forest on the shore of a lake in Canada

Science

Climate Change Is Making Allergy Season Even Worse

Yingxiao Zhang and Allison L. Steiner

March 20, 2022

Flowers with ominous clouds in the background.

Science

The World Has One Big Chance to Fix Plastics

Rebecca Altman and Tridibesh Dey

March 15, 2022

two plastic cups, a plastic tray, a plastic fork and knife, and crumpled plastic wrap

Sections

The Print Edition

If Your Car Hits a Deer You Might as Well Eat It

What Are Ocean Predators Doing So Deep Underwater?

Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work

Rats Learned to Hide and Seek. Scientists Learned Way More.

Kelp Is Weirdly Great at Sucking Carbon Out of the Sky

A Radioactive Gas Is Lurking Beneath the Permafrost

America Did Too Good a Job at Saving Canada Geese

Frogs Keep Mating With the Wrong Things

Steelmaking Cannot Go On This Way

The Democrats Really Are That Dense About Climate Change

As the Climate Changes, So Does Fiction

The World Has No Choice but to Care About India’s Heat Wave

Man’s Other Best Friend

Americans Are Missing a Key Stratum of Modern Knowledge

Humans Can’t Quit a Basic Myth About Dog Breeds

We Created the ‘Pandemicene’

There’s No Scenario in Which 2050 Is ‘Normal’

Alert! Polar Bear Incoming

The Inner Lives of Animals

Dimming the Sun Could Be Climate Science’s Trolley Problem

We’ve Never Seen a Carbon-Removal Plan Like This Before

What Humans Can Learn From Nature’s Biggest Hibernators

What Can One Disease Do to a Landscape?

Have Americans Been Mercilessly Squashing a Creepy Bug for Nothing?

The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead

Naked Mole Rats Have a Very Strange Status Symbol

All Creatures Great and Small

The War in Ukraine Is Also a Climate Problem

The World’s Biggest Bee Isn’t Out of the Woods Yet

Who Moved My Seed?

The Left’s Climate Playbook Is Already Outdated

The Green-Energy Culture Wars in Red States

You Try Constricting Your Prey and Breathing at the Same Time

Save the Forests—Especially the Five Biggest Ones

Climate Change Is Making Allergy Season Even Worse

The World Has One Big Chance to Fix Plastics