Brad Plumer
Former Senior Editor
Latest articles by Brad Plumer
The amount of forest loss in the last half of 2014 was up 213% over the previous year.
It’s a great look at how far-flung parts of the world can be interconnected in totally unexpected ways.
Author Natasha Dow Schüll talks about the evolution of slot machines, exploring how and why they’ve become so addictive.
Our brains are tricking us into seeing different colors based on the assumptions we make about lighting in the photo.
James Inhofe tossed a snowball on the Senate floor to “debunk” global warming
Nicaragua has enlisted a mysterious Chinese billionaire to dig a canal bigger than Panama’s. What could go wrong?
It’s surprising that Keystone XL went from a little-noticed pipeline to the biggest energy issue in politics.
A new study finds that great gerbils in Asia, not rats, helped spread Europe’s black death and kill millions.
A new study finds that excess air pollution in India is shortening the lives of 660 million people by 3.2 years on average.
Wall Street is becoming skeptical of Google’s moonshot ideas like self-driving cars and balloons that beam down wind power.