Climate
Vox’s coverage of climate change, renewable energy, conservation, and other environmental issues
This technology could feed a world of 10 billion. We’re squandering it, and the trade war with China could make it worse.
What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.
Wildfires are getting worse — and a lot more expensive for the rest of us.
Her last interviews are essential listening for everyone.
Here’s why you shouldn’t panic. Yet.
Between Congress, property development, and climate change, there’s no easy fix.
Informal recycling is deadly — and relatively simple to fix.
Environmental activist and writer Bill McKibben on why “you can’t stop the sun.”
Climate change is rewriting America’s map of disease — through bug bites.
While the rest of the country turned a blind eye to ancient disease threats, these scientists leaned in.
If we can help these creatures flourish in NYC, we can help them anywhere.
Emergency response’s newfound sluggishness, explained by earthquakes and landslides.
This small Texas city is leading the country’s response.
There are more than 200 mosquito species in the country — but just a few to worry about.
Scientists are looking for the “dark matter” of the animal kingdom — and it’s revealing how little we know about life on Earth.
The walls built to protect New Orleans after Katrina are failing.
And how wildland firefighters are trying to keep up.
Rare samples of mud — yes mud — from deep below the ice sheet are giving scientists new insights into our changing climate.
Ford may just be building the electric vehicle we’ve all been waiting for.
A wild idea would treat carbon waste like cash. It could save the climate.
Extreme heat is increasing the prevalence of a disease that hits low-income people the hardest.
Surprise! It probably has nothing to do with saving animals.
Forecasts are better than ever, and far more vulnerable than they should be.
Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are placing big, divergent bets on the future of meat. Who will win?
Herds in North America will likely be hit the hardest.
Rising temperatures are rewriting the earliest stages of life.
America’s wildfire strategy is falling apart when it’s needed most.
A growing number of thinkers say factory farming can help save the planet. Are they right?
Invasive bullfrogs are spreading in the West. Here’s why scientists are so alarmed.
Trump’s EPA wants to claw back grants for a solar panel program.
Inside the years-long quest to catch a sea star killer.
Natural disasters may cost more money, but they claim far fewer lives than in decades past.
A philosopher on humanity’s need for a new story — and a new way to defy where we’re headed.
The communities of sea creatures push the boundaries of what we know about life.
How to develop new habits in an era of extreme heat.
The agency plans to reverse its own legal justification for regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Banning food dye is inconsequential when environmental pollution is killing us.
These (literal) thirst traps are helping wild animals beat the heat.
And why it’s not getting cheaper any time soon.
It’s pretty much just as gross as it sounds.