Why Are So Many MAGA Women Blonde?

And the intense gender affirmation doesn’t stop at hair color

52 Simple Questions To Trigger Deep (and Funny) Conversations

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The Greenest Thing You Can Do With a Plastic Bag Is Bury It

For almost forty years, the arrows printed on it have pointed everyone at the wrong question.

China’s Water Bomb Has Exploded in Nepal — and the World Is Silent

Climate change broke the mountain, but China’s upstream secrecy and the world’s silence turned disaster into catastrophe.

Overshoot Is Not Surrender (Just a Promise to Clean Up Later)

Returning to the same temperature doesn’t mean returning to the same world

What If We Say “F*ck the AMOC”?

The Atlantic’s collapse date keeps moving. The speed we’re heating it doesn’t.

The Smallest Number Warming the Planet

Methane is scarce in the atmosphere, but its heating power, and how quickly it fades, make it one of our best chances to slow global…

The Week I Turned Friendship Into a Test

My Quiet Phone Told an Ugly Half-Truth

Ducks Are Made of Mud

Waterfowlers built one of Earth’s great conservation stories by looking up. The warming prairie potholes now ask them to look down.

How Fishing Can Be The Top Link of a Methane-Control System

The more we harvest, the more we can fight algal blooms

The School Mothers Knew My Snacks, Not My Life

Being Included Everywhere Made Me Lonely

Doomsday: The World Ends on November 13

A 1960 equation said we’d be squeezed to death this November. While the world stared at the curve, the panic around it sold pesticides and…

Seven Planetary Limits Are in the Red. This Pond Shows a Way Back Within Years, Not Centuries.

Cutting the fertilizer that reaches shallow lakes could help the water and the climate

What Is Aquatic Methane? A Twenty-Year Answer

Somebody asked me whether pond gas was a real thing. This is the whole answer, start to finish, from the end of my dock.

A Stranger in My Own Land

Gates don’t need guards when the doctrine does the guarding

Who Spends the Last 130 Gigatonnes?

Three states counted what is left. One bloc told the court it cannot be divided.

My Mother Thinks El Niño Comes From the Sky. She’s Only Wrong About the Direction.

Argentina gets rain. Indonesia gets fire. Southern Africa gets hunger. And the fossil fuel industry gets a scapegoat.

The Dead Man Outside Amazon’s Copper Deal

BHP can carry a carbon credit across oceans. Carlos Rodríguez Soto’s colleagues want to know what happened to their safety warnings.

Nobody Builds a Roof for the Average Winter

The worst outcomes are the hardest to pin down, and we’re betting the planet on them