YouTube has a big climate misinformation problem it can’t solve

In a polarized world, social media platforms can’t remain neutral.

By David Roberts

Fashion has a misinformation problem. That’s bad for the environment.

Questionable facts plague the conversation around sustainability and fashion, and that makes the industry harder to regulate.

By Alden Wicker

Energy & Environment

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Invasion Day is a day of mourning for Indigenous Australians. The bushfires make this year extra poignant.

By Nylah Burton January 24

What it’s like to live through the Australian bushfires

By Jessica Machado January 24

The Doomsday Clock is now at “100 seconds to midnight.” Here’s what that means.

By Kelsey Piper January 23

The right keeps attacking Greta Thunberg’s identity, not her ideas

By Anna North January 23

It’s Steven Mnuchin who should listen to economists on climate change

By Matthew Yglesias January 23

The lessons from historic preservation councils blocking solar panels

By David Roberts January 23

8 things everyone should know about Australia’s wildfire disaster

By Brian Resnick, Umair Irfan, and 1 other January 22

How Germany helped make renewable energy cheap for the rest of the world

By Jillian Weinberger, Amy Drozdowska, and 1 other January 22

Why millennials are the “death positive” generation

By Eleanor Cummins January 22

Marc Benioff picks a new fight with Silicon Valley — over trees

By Theodore Schleifer January 21

21 kids sued the government over climate change. A federal court dismissed the case.

By Umair Irfan January 17

Why Australia’s fires are linked to floods in Africa

By Danush Parvaneh, Madeline Marshall, and 1 other January 17

The surprising protest of Exxon’s law firm at Harvard Law

By Umair Irfan January 16

The alarming trend of beached whales filled with plastic, explained

By Umair Irfan January 16

Australia’s weird weather is getting even weirder

By Umair Irfan January 15

The hottest new thing in sustainable building is, uh, wood

By David Roberts January 15

The best case for and against a fracking ban

By Umair Irfan January 15

If our governments won’t stop climate change, should we revolt? Extinction Rebellion says yes.

By Sigal Samuel January 14

A volcano in the Philippines is spewing ash and threatening a bigger eruption

By Umair Irfan January 13

Can the catastrophic fires bring some sanity to Australian climate politics?

By Michelle Crowther January 10

Trump’s climate change reading material is beyond parody

By Aaron Rupar January 10

An Australian ecologist explains just how bad the fires are for wildlife

By Brian Resnick January 10

The viral false claim that nearly 200 arsonists are behind the Australia fires, explained

By Umair Irfan January 9

Trump has created a loophole to allow pipelines to avoid environmental review

By Katelyn Burns January 9

Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits

By Matthew Yglesias January 8

As Australia burns, its leaders are clinging to coal

By Umair Irfan January 8

How to build a circular economy that recycles carbon

By David Roberts January 8

17 Updates

Australia fires: news and updates

By Vox Staff January 7

A staggering 1 billion animals are now estimated dead in Australia’s fires

By Sigal Samuel January 7

Australia’s hellish heat wave and wildfires, explained

By Umair Irfan January 6

Australia’s massive fires, as seen from space

By Umair Irfan and Christina Animashaun January 6

How to squirrel-proof the power grid

By Alvin Chang, Madeline Marshall, and 1 other January 6

What Australia’s devastating fires look like on the ground

By Umair Irfan January 3

The sad truth about our boldest climate target

By David Roberts January 3

Amazon threatened to fire employees who spoke out against its environmental policies

By Shirin Ghaffary January 2

California now requires solar panels on all new homes. That’s not necessarily a good thing.

By David Roberts January 2

2019 was a brutal year for American farmers

By Umair Irfan December 27, 2019

This one weird trick can help any state or city pass clean energy policy

By David Roberts December 26, 2019

Supertrees: Meet the Amazonian giant that helps the rainforest make its own rain

By Umair Irfan December 23, 2019

Looking back at the tumultuous 2010s

The ice we’ve lost to climate change this past decade, visualized

By Umair Irfan December 23, 2019