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.

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.

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

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

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

The USDA has become an inefficient monster that often promotes products that are bad for consumers and the environment. Let’s replace it with a Department of Food.

For young people, climate politics are understandably personal.

How one 90-year ecological mystery reveals the complexities of conservation—and the problems with the “endangered species” approach.

Polls consistently show that we’re worried about climate change, but many of us—especially politicians—don’t act like it.

I was a corn detasseler as a teenager. But increasingly weird weather patterns are making the timing of this crucial task harder and harder to predict.

Only persistence can bring sweeping change. But that sweeping change sometimes comes sooner than you expect.

What do suburban neighborhood spats, climate activism, and Indigenous traditions have in common? They’re all feeding into a growing movement to grant trees legal rights.

First the Covid vaccine, now a malaria one: The race is on to beat zoonotic diseases as climate change spreads them all over the world.

It’s real meat, biologically speaking, not a plant-based imitation. But it didn’t come from a living, breathing animal. The words used to brand it could make all the difference—just ask GMO producers.

Huge numbers of young people say they’re hesitant to have kids because of climate change.

How people respond to fossil fuels sometimes has less to do with politics than a sense of inevitability.

Climate change is already devastating the young, who feel abandoned by their governments and earlier generations.

Eating meat just one day a week could cut emissions, stave off climate despair, and help start a movement.

Will my son grow up with monarch butterflies?

As heat, wildfires, and freak weather patterns transform familiar surroundings, can hikers and runners still rely on their instincts?