The Environment

As we careen on a climate catastrophe, the COP28 conference has witnessed world leaders’ failure to avert clear disaster for humanity

The name Anthropocene means human activity is profoundly changing our environment, and you’ll have to plan for those changes

We do not want to trade the harm of emissions from gasoline vehicles for the harm caused by unsustainable mining practices

Used car buyers and the U.S. government need to dive into the marketplace to deliver the emissions reductions promised by electric vehicles

Rigorous standards are required to scale hydrogen as a clean energy solution; otherwise, it will be a costly, polluting diversion

It’s not just nukes: the power at the heart of the Godzilla franchise is our awareness of the global consequences of human folly

Inequality ensures that feared financial losses moving away from fossil fuels will fall most heavily on the wealthy, and not on the poor and middle class

Congress must end the exemption of nuclear waste from environmental law if we ever hope to end a 60-year logjam on how to safely store it

For decades industry has claimed that curbing pollution costs too much, but the reality has proven otherwise. Here we go again, this time on power plant carbon emissions

Healthy oceans are central to the well-being of both our species and our entire planet

Telecommunications grids are vulnerable to worsening climate disasters—which highlights the importance of one age-old survival system

Humans are feeding the invisible world of ocean microbes a punishing diet of pollutants, boosting the impact of climate change and hastening the destruction of life as we know it