Energy & Environment

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

Animal sounds are a marvel of evolution. We can’t afford to drown them out.

The air around us is vibrating with sonic lessons, says an award-winning biologist. All we have to do is listen.

By Neel Dhanesha

How high can gas prices go?

The US ban on Russian imports has a modest effect, but what comes next matters more.

By Rebecca Leber

The bizarre deep-sea creatures living on the Endurance shipwreck

By Benji Jones March 9

California wants to use electric cars to back up the power grid

By Neel Dhanesha March 9

The troubling link between electric cars and ... flamingos?

By Benji Jones March 9

The loss of insects is an apocalypse worth worrying about

By Benji Jones March 6

America can’t solve its gas price problem (or its Russia problem) with drilling

By Rebecca Leber March 5

Oops, cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was probably a bad idea

By Benji Jones March 4

Why climate solutions will fail without the help of social scientists

By Rebecca Leber March 1

5 signs of how climate change is unraveling Earth’s ecosystems

By Benji Jones March 1

The Supreme Court appears eager to gut the EPA, but can’t figure out how to do it

By Ian Millhiser February 28

Climate change is already making parts of the world unlivable

By Umair Irfan February 28

Scientists are recruiting elephant seals to eavesdrop on whales

By Benji Jones February 24

These tiny succulent plants are being poached by the thousands

By Meredith Lawrence February 23

The absurd Supreme Court case that could gut the EPA

By Ian Millhiser February 23

The hidden melting of the most important ice on Earth, explained

By Umair Irfan February 21

How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth

By Siobhan McDonough February 20

The mystery of methane gone missing

By Rebecca Leber February 17

Why electric vehicles are so hot in the 2022 Super Bowl ads

By Rebecca Leber February 13

The bad news about your avocado habit

By Benji Jones February 13

How gray wolves divided America

By Benji Jones February 12

Artificial snow is nothing like the real stuff

By Neel Dhanesha February 10

The end of natural gas has to start with its name

By Rebecca Leber February 10

The manatees are starving

By Benji Jones February 8

Will climate change melt the Winter Olympics?

By Umair Irfan February 5

There’s a Covid-19 epidemic in deer. It could come back to haunt us.

By Brian Resnick February 3

Dirty energy pays more than clean energy. That’s a problem.

By Neel Dhanesha February 2

One Good Thing: A soothing tabletop game about birds

By Brian Anderson February 2

Paleontologists study the past. This one has a warning for the future.

By Neel Dhanesha February 2

This is how much meat and dairy hurt the climate

By Kenny Torrella February 1

The extinction crisis that no one’s talking about

By Benji Jones February 1

Tarantula bites are excruciating. Their venom could unlock better painkillers.

By Neel Dhanesha January 31

Billions of animals are slaughtered every year — just to be wasted

By Kenny Torrella January 30

Parasites that thrive in a warming planet are killing Minnesota’s moose

By Liz Scheltens January 28

A new theory helps explain the epic mystery of bird migration

By Benji Jones January 27

Your gas stove is always polluting, even when it’s turned off

By Rebecca Leber January 27

The animal that’s everywhere and nowhere

By Benji Jones January 25

What the Doomsday Clock is really counting down to

By Bryan Walsh January 21

Democrats may have to sacrifice something big for the climate

By Rebecca Leber January 21

Big Food is ready to sell you more plant-based meat

By Kenny Torrella January 21

This map may make you feel better about the state of the planet

By Benji Jones January 21

Texas went big on oil. Earthquakes followed.

By Neel Dhanesha January 20