Climate

Scientists don’t yet understand why temperatures have been steadily spiking above the projections. But what they do understand is bad enough.

Global tourism is projected to reach an all-time high this year. How do we square our zeal for exploration with increasingly pressing reasons to stay put?

As he steps down from office, the first Presidential envoy on the climate says that we have made progress, but we’re not moving fast enough.

The British Prime Minister has rolled back the country’s policies on reducing emissions. To what end?

The veteran political operative now has one of the nation’s top climate jobs. He speaks about the Willow oil-drilling project, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Biden White House.

The I.P.C.C. report contains no new data; nevertheless, it manages to alarm in new ways.

The scientists who study solar geoengineering don’t want anyone to try it. But climate inaction is making it more likely.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks out about deforestation and the weakness of global institutions before his speech at the COP27 climate summit.

In an age of more intense storms, forecasters explain their aims.

Dhruv Khullar reports on the heat wave in India, and Daniel Sherrell puts the enormity of the climate crisis in context. Plus, David Remnick talks January 6th with Congressman Raskin.

With climate legislation in peril and time running out, a group of young aides broke from a tradition of deference and staged a sit-in at Chuck Schumer’s office, demanding action.

President Biden, at a climate event, stopped short of declaring an emergency, casting the day mostly as a reminder of all that has not been done.

A destructive decision in West Virginia v. E.P.A.

A community near Scottsdale, Arizona, is running out of water. Amid the finger-pointing, the real question is: how many developments will be next?

In California, millions of residents and thousands of farmers depend on the Bay-Delta for fresh water—but they can’t agree on how to protect it.

I should have left you after the first oil spill.

Evan Osnos, Susan B. Glasser, Jonathan Blitzer, Elizabeth Kolbert, and John Cassidy on the successes and failures of the no-longer-new Administration.

How a blind spot in the Kyoto Protocol helped create the biomass industry.

A slow transition away from carbon will be costlier than a fast one, but each year that we keep spewing carbon is a year in which fossil-fuel companies’ current business models stay intact.

That I could have ever found such a visitation of chaos invigorating is amazing to me.