Climate Archive
Archives for February 2023
It’s possible to do hard things for the climate — and the US isn’t that far behind.
How bad is the East Palestine derailment, really?
The train derailment and chemical spill was the culmination of a long trend of cost-cutting in the rail industry.
And can the buildings be fixed?
How we turned 20,000 Soviet nukes into zero-carbon energy — and how we can do the same with some of our own.
What Turkey and Syria’s deadly earthquakes reveal about wealth.
Researchers have found that California’s electric cars are already keeping asthma patients out of ERs.
The massive earthquakes come on top of decades of civil war in the region, which has created millions of refugees and a spiraling economic crisis.
Exxon, BP, and the rest of the oil industry aren’t prepared for competition from renewables.
Bushfires continue to rage across Australia, which is in the middle of one of the country’s worst fire seasons on record.
The H5N1 avian flu virus isn’t a major human threat today. Here’s what it’d take to become one.
We’ve been fighting over gas stoves for decades.
New experiments show the power of giving cash right before extreme weather strikes.
Palm oil once destroyed orangutan-filled rainforests in Southeast Asia. Now, the industry is cleaning up its act.