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September 22, 2016
MagazineBill McKibben
Recalculating the Climate Math
The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought.
September 21, 2016
Brooke Seipel
It’s official: Climate change is a threat to our national security.
September 19, 2016
Kyle Powys Whyte
North Dakota’s Pipeline Protest is About Climate Justice
August 15, 2016
Bill McKibben
A World at War
We’re under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII.
July 28, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Bernie’s environmentalists are starting to rally around Hillary.
July 5, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
The Last Stand for Sanders’s Environmental Activists?
For the greens looking to change the Democratic Party platform, it's the end of the world as we know it.
June 28, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Volkswagen gambled its very existence to cheat on emissions.
June 24, 2016
Damian Carrington
Brexit Is Bad News for the Environment
June 23, 2016
Robert Kopp
Trump’s Energy Plan Doesn’t Put “America First”
Ignoring greenhouse gas emissions will pose a climate threat to the economy.
June 20, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Last year saw the most killings of environmental activists on record.
June 17, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Green Lefties Are Grieving Over Sanders’s Loss. Can They Learn to Love Clinton?
May 31, 2016
The New Republic Staff
The Next Frontier of Climate Change: Climate & Social Justice
May 25, 2016
Alexander Arkhipkin
Here’s Why Octopus and Squid Populations Are Booming
How environmental problems are making the ocean the perfect habitat for cephalopods.
May 24, 2016
Elina L. Niño
Deciphering the Mysterious Decline of Honey Bees
How a bee shortage threatens our food supply.
May 16, 2016
Clayton Aldern
Donald Trump’s Energy Adviser Doesn’t Care Whether Climate Change Is Real
May 12, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Should We Respond to Climate Change Like We Did to WWII?
The controversial theory of "climate mobilization" says we should.
May 10, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Why Hillary Clinton Can’t Win in Coal Country
In West Virginia, Donald Trump is being hailed as the savior of coal jobs—while Clinton’s realism is dooming her.
April 29, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Why Methane Is Having a Moment
The greenhouse gas hasn't gotten the attention such a potent carbon-polluter deserves. But that's about to change.
April 26, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
The world is still living with the fallout from Chernobyl.
April 22, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Today’s signing of the Paris agreement has environmentalists split.

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