A roundup of ideas for how to break fossil fuels’ hold over the country’s dysfunctional political system

An increasing number of voices are urging people to refocus on the hyperlocal when national events feel too overwhelming.

A burned-out journalist searches for meaning at a sensory deprivation party and in Jenny Odell’s new book on reconceptualizing time.

Fixing our dysfunctional food system as the planet warms will be very hard. But one easy thing is staring us right in the face.

And politicians, despite their posturing, don’t care about any of them.

At the end of a study that gave people induction stoves to try, not a single person wanted their gas stove back.

Balmy days in February can cost us big down the road. Just ask a farmer.

From the East Palestine derailment to the gas stove backlash, our society struggles to see pollution as a real and urgent threat.

Google Maps’s air quality indicators and wildfire warnings suggest one approach to a warming world. It’s grim.

The District of Columbia City Council is considering a bill that will allow low- and moderate-income households to switch out their gas stoves—if they so choose—for free.

What’s one thing wealthy people of all nationalities have in common? Far higher emissions than the poorer people in their country.

Conservatives are hell-bent on defending gas stoves. Why not other poisonous household products?

How can the World Economic Forum earnestly pretend to address global crises while being funded by the corporations that fuel these crises?

Torrential rains, flooding, and mudslides in California are a preview of an alarming future.

Changing your personal habits won’t change the world, but there are other benefits to doing so.

It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2022.

A biotech firm wants to resurrect the Pleistocene mammal in Alaska—and it’s not clear the U.S. government can stop them.

A citizen science program called RinkWatch encourages backyard rink makers to submit data on ice and weather conditions.

The same day Earthshot awarded $1.2 million to start-up Notpla and its petroleum-free seaweed packaging, negotiations to curb plastics production failed miserably.

These turkeys are miserable. These apples are threatened by fire blight. These decorative gourds are hiding the truth.