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The Hantavirus Is Also a Climate Warning

Mark Hertsgaard

Mark Hertsgaard

The Hantavirus Is Also a Climate Warning

A passenger from the final group to be evacuated from the MV Hondius makes a heart from a bus on the way to the airport in the Granadilla Port in Tenerife, Spain. The MV Hondius had three passengers die from Hantavirus last month and eight more reported cases.

The Hantavirus Is Also a Climate Warning

Mark Hertsgaard

A passenger from the final group to be evacuated from the MV Hondius makes a heart from a bus on the way to the airport in the Granadilla Port in Tenerife, Spain. The MV Hondius had three passengers die from Hantavirus last month and eight more reported cases.

Mark Hertsgaard

The Hantavirus Is Also a Climate Warning

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani gestures, smiling, during a rally on April 12.

Here’s How Democrats Should Talk About Climate Change

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani gestures, smiling, during a rally on April 12.

Here’s How Democrats Should Talk About Climate Change

Cameron Hamilton, Donald Trump’s new nominee to lead FEMA, spoke during a subcommittee hearing in May 2025.

Trump’s FEMA Is an Unnatural Disaster

The president has staffed the agency in charge of federal disaster response with a rotating cast of fools—and it’s showing.

An aerial shot of homes on Ridgeway Boulevard in New Orleans, near Lake Pontchartrain, surrounded by water and marshland.

Louisiana Republicans Seem Content to Let New Orleans Drown

An aerial shot of homes on Ridgeway Boulevard in New Orleans, near Lake Pontchartrain, surrounded by water and marshland.

Louisiana Republicans Seem Content to Let New Orleans Drown

Trump’s Iran War Is Smashing His Fossil Fuel Dreams

Trump’s Iran War Is Smashing His Fossil Fuel Dreams

Donald Trump gestures while speaking

Trump’s Iran War Is Smashing His Fossil Fuel Dreams

Donald Trump gestures while speaking

Trump’s Iran War Is Smashing His Fossil Fuel Dreams

The AI Battles

An excavator stands amid construction equipment and piles of dirt, with mountains in the background.

Bombs and Porn Are Bad Reasons to Build More Data Centers

Is this big AI push supposed to help the U.S. kill more Iranian kids? To help school shooters kill kids at home? Or just to fill the internet with rubbish? We need better answers to this question.

A protester standing with a mostly empty town street in the background holds up a sign saying "We Say NO to the Data Center."

Liza Featherstone

Data Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For

Amodei sits at a table with flowers and gestures while turning his head to his right and speaking into a microphone.

Does Generative AI “Work”? That’s a Misleading Question.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is shown close up, speaking into a microphone, with Bernie Sanders in the background.

David R. Tillman

What Bernie and AOC Get Wrong About Data Centers