
Umair Irfan
Former correspondent
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State regulators just passed a proposal to ban sales of gasoline vehicles by 2035.


A wave of magnetized particles from the sun will strike Earth over the next few days and light up the skies.


More water cuts are coming as the nation’s largest reservoirs continue to dry up in the worst drought in 1,200 years.


The megadrought is costing us megawatts.

Covid-19 cases are rising again, but redesigned vaccines are on the horizon.


Scientists are designing vaccines that could potentially cover all Covid-19 variants.


The extraordinary heat wave in Europe is showing what’s possible already, and what lies ahead under climate change.


The omicron subvariant is tuned to evade immunity, even from previous omicron infections.


An important but overlooked piece of good news about climate change.


The Supreme Court has limited the EPA’s ability to address climate change. That still won’t save faltering coal plants.