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Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future

November 23, 2025

a group of people are silhouetted by the light at the entrance of a pavilion at COP30 in Brasil

A Food Reckoning Is Coming

Michael Grunwald

June 3, 2025

A cake decorated to look like earth from above with a large slice taken out and pieces scattered.

The False AI Energy Crisis

February 11, 2025

Image split down the middle. To the left, a network of nodes connected in the shape of a brain, to the right, smokestacks.

Environmental Internationalism Is in Its Flop Era

December 13, 2024

a match whose tip looks like the Earth

Cheap Solar Panels Are Changing the World

October 23, 2024

Color picture of a fuzzy white orb against an orange, red, and black background

We Ruined Rain

June 20, 2024

A resident walks along a flooded street after rainstorms slammed northern California, in the coastal town of Aptos, on January 5, 2023

The World Has a New Floor for Climate Ambition

December 13, 2023

Sultan Al Jaber and other UN leaders sit at a table against a green background

What Is Anyone Really Doing at COP?

December 5, 2023

In a blue-lit room a blue and green ombre screen reads "welcome to the COP of action." A large circular blue light defines the ceiling.

When Does the Clean-Energy Infinity Loop Start?

July 13, 2022

An infinity loop made of batteries

The World Is Half-Prepared for a Different Energy Future

January 5, 2022

Chevron gas pumps in the late afternoon

The Hidden Subsidy of Fossil Fuels

May 9, 2019