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The Threshold at Which Snow Starts Irreversibly Disappearing

January 10, 2024

A person holds an umbrella in the wet and snowy city

If Not Vegan, or Vegetarian, How About Chickentarian?

December 21, 2023

pictures of eggs chickens and chicken farms in a grid washed brownish yellow

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

The Fossil-Fuel Industry Has a Rosy Idea of Its Future

December 12, 2023

oil drum with a smiley face on the front

A Radical Idea to Break the Logic of Oil Drilling

December 11, 2023

Gas flame burns at the top of an oil well in Colombia.

The Grim Ironies of Climate Change

December 5, 2023

Photo of a Congolese soldier patrolling a hillside covered in vegetation

The Climate Can’t Afford Another Trump Presidency

January/February 2024 Issue

black-and-white photo of smoke billowing out of smokestack

El clima no puede aguantar otra presidencia de Trump

December 4, 2023

Fotografía en blanco y negro de humo saliendo de una chimenea.

Elephants Might Have a Big Carbon Footprint

Katharine Gammon

December 1, 2023

Close-up black-and-white photo of an elephant's feet

Something Big Just Happened at COP

November 30, 2023

Children playing on the rusting remains of a wrecked ship that was lifted and smashed onto the town's sea wall during a king tide in February 2015.

2023 Just Notched Its Most Ominous Climate Record Yet

November 20, 2023

Three people stand outdoors in dim lighting as an orange glow from a forest fire fills the sky above a hedge of trees.

An Unlikely Source of Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

November 19, 2023

An aerial view of the Bogus Creek wildfire burning in Alaska's Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge

One Huge Contradiction Is Undoing Our Best Climate Efforts

November 10, 2023

A large machine with a round head loads coal into piles at a coal plant in Letart, West Virginia.

Plant Seeds Are Stuck

November 5, 2023

The Violet Turaco is a fruit-eating bird from West Africa with dark-blue and black feathers and an orange beak.

The Great Underappreciated Driver of Climate Change

Alexandra Frost

October 24, 2023

Cropped images of fruit and bread in a grid

The Atlantic Guide to Privacy

Slouching Toward ‘Accept All Cookies’

September 12, 2023

A colorful, pixelated person running

America Could Be in for a Rough Fall

September 6, 2023

A shirtless man seen from the back standing in the sun, pouring a jug of water over his head

We’re Gambling With the Only Good Oceans in the Universe

August 2, 2023

A large ship travels across a stretch of ocean that appears red in the sunlight

Climate Collapse Could Happen Fast

July 20, 2023

Illustration of a stopwatch, tilted and made to look like a globe

‘Things Don’t Always Change in a Nice, Gradual Way’

July 13, 2023

Three spliced photographs of dramatic climatic events from summer 2023

A Clear Indication That Climate Change Is Burning Up California

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

June 12, 2023

The Dixie Fire near Janesville, California, in 2021

How to Write About a Changing World

May 12, 2023

a book in the water

A Force That Has Shaped the History of the World

Verlyn Klinkenborg

May 10, 2023

Two photos, one current and one historical, of floods

There Is No Stopping the Allergy Apocalypse

May 3, 2023

An image of a person sneezing

Climate Change Could Remake Tides

April 22, 2023

Shoreline on the beach

Conservation Tends to Ignore the Most Common Type of Life

April 12, 2023

a collage of various microbes

The West Agreed to Pay Climate Reparations. That Was the Easy Part.

March 29, 2023

A well with coins falling inside

The Malthusians Are Back

Alex Trembath and Vijaya Ramachandran

March 22, 2023

Red-and-white graphic illustration showing the Earth from space, but the continents are crowded with giant people

The World Is Finally Cracking Down on ‘Greenwashing’

March 1, 2023

A high-voltage electricity pylon behind a plume of smoke from burning garbage, mostly plastic and textiles, at the Gioto dumpsite

Fighting Climate Change Was Costly. Now It’s Profitable.

February 8, 2023

A GM EV charging factory

A Fisherman Died in 1952. Could Climate Change Be to Blame?

February 4, 2023

A rocklside in Greenland that killed a man in 1952

1.5 Degrees Was Never the End of the World

February 1, 2023

An image of a protest sign that reads "1.5 degrees to stay alive."

Will Children’s Books Become Catalogs of the Extinct?

Tatiana Schlossberg

December 28, 2022

Fuzzy watercolor paintings of a gray whale, a yellow butterfly, and a brown bear

Future Generations Might Never Get to Kiss Under the Mistletoe

December 25, 2022

Mistletoe in trees in Switzerland in front of a cloudy, snowy mountain

The World Could Be Entering a New Era of Climate War

November 23, 2022

An image of Biden and Xi Jinping

Where U.S.-China Competition Leaves Climate Change

Michael Schuman

November 21, 2022

Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden side by side