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Climate

Vox's coverage of climate change, renewable energy, conservation, and other environmental issues

The state of the climate crisis

By Paige Vega

Earth will soon cross a scary climate change threshold. What happens next?

By Umair Irfan

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The future of the planet hinges on understanding these 5 key phrases

By Rebecca Leber

There’s less meat at this year’s climate talks. But there’s plenty of bull.

By Kenny Torrella

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Christine Parthemore is training a generation to tackle a world of interlocking threats

By Dylan Matthews

Airlines say they’ve found a route to climate-friendly flying

By Umair Irfan

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Zahra Biabani wants Gen Z to feel hopeful about the future

By Julieta Cardenas

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Maisa Rojas is putting political power behind climate science

By Julieta Cardenas

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Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney have a plan for national progress

By Bryan Walsh

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Genesis Butler is leading the next generation of animal and climate activists

By Marina Bolotnikova

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Jesse Jenkins is figuring out how to electrify America’s power grid

By Oshan Jarow

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Robinson Meyer is demystifying what decarbonizing the economy really means

By Oshan Jarow

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is building a theory of justice for a warming world

By Oshan Jarow

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Hannah Ritchie fights climate doomerism with facts

By Rachel DuRose

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Priya Donti is harnessing AI to fight climate change

By Oshan Jarow

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Jane Flegal is doing whatever she can to fight climate change

By Dylan Matthews

Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money.

By Sigal Samuel and Rachel DuRose

Mud libraries hold the story of the Earth’s climate past — and foretell its future

By Byrd Pinkerton

Are your holiday meals pricier this year? Blame extreme heat.

By Umair Irfan

Biden gives center stage to the climate report Trump tried to bury

By Umair Irfan and Rebecca Leber

Joe Manchin deserves (some) credit for fighting climate change

By Umair Irfan

How the fossil-fuel lobby weaponized Julia Child’s gas stove

By Rebecca Leber

It takes more than trees to build a livable city

By Marin Cogan

Lahaina schools are open again. Parents worry they’re ridden with toxic waste.

By Ava Sasani

Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts

By David Zipper

Why more fossil fuel workers aren’t joining the clean energy revolution

By Umair Irfan
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How China is designing flood-resistant cities

By Halley Brown

The propane industry’s weird obsession with school buses, explained

By Rebecca Leber

How Hurricane Otis defied forecasts and exploded into a deadly storm overnight

By Umair Irfan and Benji Jones

Water-hungry golf courses plague Arizona’s native javelina-filled landscape

By Benji Jones

The World Bank can bring the world’s poor into the clean energy revolution

By Dylan Matthews
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Cow burps are a climate problem. Can seaweed help?

By Kimberly Mas

This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.

By Kenny Torrella

These strange underwater animals could save our lives. If we don’t destroy them first.

By Benji Jones

Why Biden’s multibillion-dollar bet on hydrogen energy is such a big deal

By Rebecca Leber

It’s not just Paris. There’s a “global resurgence” of bedbugs.

By Benji Jones

What happens if you force companies to reveal how much they contribute to climate change?

By Umair Irfan

What Salt Lake City gets right about downtown

By Miles Bryan

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El Niño is nowhere near done wreaking havoc on the world’s weather

By Umair Irfan

How a tiny island is adapting to climate change ... on its dinner plates

By Umair Irfan

We know where the next big earthquakes will happen — but not when

By Umair Irfan

The Winnemem Wintu won land back for their tribe. Here’s what’s next.

By Izzie Ramirez

It’s clearer than ever that we’re pushing the Amazon rainforest to its dreaded demise

By Benji Jones