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Energy & Environment

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

China’s commitment to become carbon neutral by 2060, explained

China just stepped up its climate goals. Is it enough to avert climate chaos?

By Lili Pike

On climate change, oil and gas companies have a long way to go

A new report finds that all the new industry commitments don’t add up.

By David Roberts

Scientists fear the Western wildfires could lead to long-term lung damage

By Umair Irfan September 24

How affluent people can end their mindless overconsumption

By Jag Bhalla and Eliza Barclay September 24

Noam Chomsky’s Green New Deal

By David Roberts September 21

What wildfires in Brazil, Siberia, and the US West have in common

By Lili Pike September 17

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

By Sigal Samuel September 17

4 astonishing signs of coal’s declining economic viability

By David Roberts September 16

We have to accelerate clean energy innovation to curb the climate crisis. Here’s how.

By David Roberts September 16

“Unprecedented”: What’s behind the California, Oregon, and Washington wildfires

By Umair Irfan September 15

A new California law will help inmate firefighters join fire departments upon release

By Cameron Peters September 12

What’s causing climate change, in 10 charts

By David Roberts September 11

California’s recurring wildfire problem, explained

By Eliza Barclay, David Roberts, and 1 more September 10

How America can leave fossil fuels behind

By Danush Parvaneh and David Roberts September 10

The orange skies and smoky air from Western wildfires, explained

By Umair Irfan September 9

Big Oil’s hopes are pinned on plastics. It won’t end well.

By David Roberts September 4

The US South could save money by cleaning up its power grid

By David Roberts September 1

2020’s “extremely active” hurricane season, explained

By Umair Irfan August 28

Tropical Storm Laura’s flooding and other impacts on the ground: What we know

By Roge Karma August 27

How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs

By Ezra Klein August 27

Hurricane Laura: The danger of storm surge, explained

By Eliza Barclay and Brian Resnick August 27

Whose vote counts?

A second Trump term would mean severe and irreversible changes in the climate

By David Roberts August 27

Hurricane Laura hits Gulf Coast as an “extremely dangerous” storm

By Umair Irfan August 27

What makes California’s current major wildfires so unusual

By Umair Irfan August 26

Senate Democrats want to build a climate coalition that can take on the Kochs

By David Roberts August 25

What happens to the Supreme Court (and the Constitution) if Trump wins

By Ian Millhiser August 25

Democrats have made a puzzling decision to drop their demand to end fossil fuel subsidies

By Umair Irfan August 19

A simpler, more useful way to tax carbon

By David Roberts August 17

California’s heat wave caused rolling blackouts for millions

By Zeeshan Aleem August 15

Air pollution is much worse than we thought

By David Roberts August 12

The global coffee crisis is coming

By Sam Ellis August 10

Jeff Bezos offers a clue to his $10 billion climate change strategy

By Theodore Schleifer August 7

How to drive fossil fuels out of the US economy, quickly

By David Roberts August 6

Scientists have backed away from the worst-case climate scenario — and the best one too

By Umair Irfan July 31

Microsoft’s astonishing climate change goals, explained

By David Roberts July 30

An FBI investigation shows Ohio’s abysmal energy law was fueled by corruption

By Leah C. Stokes July 23

Why the next president should establish a Department of Climate

By Allison Crimmins July 21

Nuclear power has been top-down and hierarchical. These women want to change that.

By David Roberts July 21

The entire world’s carbon emissions will finally be trackable in real time

By David Roberts July 16

Joe Biden has a chance to make history on climate change

By David Roberts July 14

Why scientists are so worried about this glacier

By Sam Ellis July 14

Many technologies needed to solve the climate crisis are nowhere near ready

By David Roberts July 14