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Your home, health, and food are just some of what’s at stake this November.
Your home, health, and food are just some of what’s at stake this November.
Why won’t the US join the most important treaty to protect the natural world?
Cuba’s energy crisis is decades in the making.
Will storm damage depress turnout in a key battleground state?
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What we know — and don’t know — about how global warming influences tropical storms.
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What Indigenous knowledge could mean in the fight to curb global warming.
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They didn’t listen to Hurricane Milton evacuation orders. Then they posted through it.
Evacuating during a climate disaster is necessary. It’s also incredibly expensive.
In Sonoma County and Denver, activists are putting animal welfare on the ballot.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are two of the biggest misinformation superspreaders.
Multiple Florida jails opted not to evacuate despite being in the storm’s direct trajectory.
Scientists are getting better at predicting the sun’s antics.
Severe flooding, tornado damage, and several deaths have been reported so far.
A new wildlife report is drawing scrutiny from some scientists, though it’s alarming nonetheless.
How the media, city mayors, and the real estate industry filled us with false hope.
Hurricane Milton made landfall near Sarasota, Florida, around 8:30 pm Wednesday as a powerful Category 3 storm with up to 120 mile-per-hour winds. Follow her for the latest news and updates.
As Milton descends, Florida prepares for uncharted territory.
Hurricanes like Milton and Helene are making it harder than ever to insure your home.
How to know when a disaster response is going well and when it’s going poorly.
Rampant disinformation is getting in the way of disaster response.
The rare storm’s hyperexplosive growth, explained.
Its day job helps prevent an iconic ocean ecosystem from collapsing.
Seasonal workers help keep our forests healthy. What happens when you fire them?
(And wait until you hear about Pesto the penguin.)
Around the country, anti-camping policies are complicating disaster recovery.
Cell towers in space are more capable than ever of helping people on the ground.
Hurricane Helene exposed the vulnerable underbelly of the global chip industry.
You shouldn’t travel to a flood zone, but you can still support the recovery.
Factory farming makes hurricanes more dangerous, disgusting, and expensive.
The brine fly is in trouble. It could take the whole ecosystem down with it.
Seven questions about the “biblical devastation” from Helene’s fallout, answered.
A reader asks whether the latest developments in clean energy technology can help save the planet. We break it down.
The Georgia chemical plant fire, explained.
Our hotter planet doesn’t have to be a hopeless planet.
A stunning image shows birds trapped inside the eye of Hurricane Helene.
Rich people debate washing machines for fun. But for billions of poor people, the debate really matters.
Why climate scientists are so concerned about aerosols, not just greenhouse gasses.
This storm showed us how mega-storms are worsening. And how unprepared we are.