On both Covid precautions and climate ethics, our lack of social consensus creates stress. But it’s also an opportunity to hone our powers of persuasion.

The FBI’s raid on the Texas congressman’s home is a reminder of how much we normalize ties to foreign (and domestic) oil.

New treatments raise the possibility that we may one day be able to treat Covid-19 like just another respiratory infection. But there are a few key steps before we get there.

Cutting the Build Back Better Act into “chunks” would be painful, but it may be the last chance in a long time to pass ambitious, enduring climate policy.

I’ve reported on Covid-19, and even I’m starting to check out. But it’s an understandable, even natural response to what we’ve endured.

A pig heart was recently transplanted into a man with a violent past. But there’s a much thornier moral debate we should be having about this medical breakthrough.

They’re responsible for a massive undercounting of Covid deaths in America. But that’s just the latest reason to get rid of this poorly regulated, overly politicized, and utterly unscientific relic of the colonial era.

Electric vehicles on their own aren’t enough.

Panic over predators sets humans up to have exactly the wrong kind of relationship with the ailing environment.

Bank of America is one of 19 financial institutions joining a Climate Risk Consortium. Hold your applause.

Exporting American gas to fight Russia means locking in methane emissions for years to come.

We’re getting Covid-19 severity all wrong.

Biden’s crackdown on Big Meat aims to increase competition to bring prices down. But cheap meat depends on ignoring the product’s true cost.

As critics debate Adam McKay’s latest film, perhaps the better question is where movies about climate change should go from here.

The American Legislative Exchange Council is pushing cookie-cutter laws that could lock pension funds and taxpayers into losing deals—while propping up coal and other fossil fuel firms.

Here are the stories our editors and readers alike loved this year.

We weren’t ready for omicron—by choice—and we’re paying in lost lives and livelihoods. What will convince our leaders to prepare for the next, inevitable surge?

Will major industries continue to insulate themselves from the climate crisis, or will they be made to address their own contributions to it?

The president has the power to reform the wayward Tennessee Valley Authority. It’s a bigger deal than you think.

The data we have suggests a connection—and the problem may be growing.