Energy Abundance Won’t Fix Electricity Bills
Efficiency standards can still help consumers.
Planet
Your guide to life on a warming planet
Last Call at the Disaster Department
Trump has signaled an end date for FEMA.
A Food Reckoning Is Coming
Our diets are awful for the planet. But we can’t simply abandon food.
The Debate That American Conservationists Should Be Having
What if the U.S. protected ecosystems directly?
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack
A zoologist observed a Cooper’s hawk using a crosswalk signal as a cue to ambush its prey.
First My Mother Died. Then My Home Got Hit by a Tornado.
My street got leveled by 150-mph winds. Why do I feel somehow at ease?
The Trump Administration Is Tempting a Honeybee Disaster
Bees are dying. Federal funding cuts aren’t helping.
The Missing Part of Trump’s Minerals Math
Without demand from clean energy, the U.S. market for rare earth, graphite, and lithium will falter.
Trump’s Trade War Could Turbocharge Deforestation in the Amazon
Massive tariffs on China will drive up soybean production in Brazil at the rainforest’s expense.
America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era
A third of Americans still breathe unhealthy air after decades of improvements—which the Trump administration wants to roll back.