Brad Plumer
Former Senior Editor
Latest articles by Brad Plumer
Maybe not. Some experts think driving habits are stubborn — and don’t change much when gas prices do.
Demand for KFC gets so intense that some people will order months in advance. How did this all get started?
Tesla, meanwhile, is taking a different approach to self-driving cars.
A simple map that breaks things down.
Congress keeps erratically killing and then renewing a key tax credit for wind. They did it again in 2014.
But environmentalists say the rules are too flimsy to stop future coal ash spills — like the one in North Carolina earlier this year.
Population growth and global warming are stressing our water supplies. Here’s how we’ll adapt.
A driver in St. Louis pays $2.08 per gallon. But in San Francisco it’s $2.97 per gallon.
In one area, bear populations fell 40% in a decade as the Arctic warmed up. In others, they’re hanging on.
“My basic takeaway for any city considering a bid for the Olympics is to run away like crazy,” says one economist.