Brad Plumer
Former Senior Editor
Latest articles by Brad Plumer
One notable surprise? A small shift in our meat-eating habits could have a huge effect.
The Earth currently has 19.6 billion chickens, 1.4 billion cattle, and 980 million pigs.
In some places, renewables are getting competitive with new fossil-fuel plants.
The days of AT&T’s Bell Labs inventing the transistor are over. And that could be a big problem for innovation.
The US is going to run out of money for roads in June. Obama wants to hike corporate taxes. Congress may have other ideas.
In 1996, atomic energy supplied 17.6% of the world’s electricity. Today that’s down to just 10.8%.
There’s a big gap between scientists and the public on global warming. But there’s a bigger one on GMOs.
The world spends $550 billion per year subsidizing fossil fuels. But cheap oil is letting them scale back.
In 2013, one company was selling tainted chicken and sickening hundreds. Yet, for months, there was little regulators could do about it.
Sunday talk-show discussions of global warming are often terrible.