The Weekly Planet: The Great Climate Bill of 2021 Is Being Shaped Now
The game before the game has started.
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Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan
What went wrong? The Lone Star State made three fundamental errors.
The Weekly Planet: The Big Idea From Bill Gates’s New Climate Book
Call it the “Gates Rule.”
An Ever-Moving, Unloved Fish Is Stirring Chaos in the North Atlantic
When mackerel started showing up in Iceland, it started a decade-long fight over how to divide the ocean’s riches.
The Weekly Planet: Hail! It’s America’s Most Underrated Climate Risk
It’s smashing, in the bad way.
A Super Bowl Ad That the Biden Presidency Made Possible
GM has cast its electric vehicles as normal American cars, in a normal Super Bowl ad. Here are seven ways to think about that.
Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World
Even a pandemic can’t stop people from buying clothes they don’t need.
The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
Our climate models could be missing something big.
Inevitable Planetary Doom Has Been Exaggerated
Hope for the future is a reasonable and necessary prerequisite for action.
The Weekly Planet: Why Biden Is Buying 645,000 New Cars
The president’s most interesting climate proposal yet hasn’t appeared in an executive order.