Culture & Politics

The planet is sending us an unmistakable signal that we need to wake up and take real action to combat the climate crisis. And this is the decade we need to do it.

It’s easy to get hung up on all the bad stuff that happened. But there was actually some good stuff, too!

The agency’s first administrator built the EPA from scratch—and established the nonpartisan, antipolluter culture that the Trump administration has all but abandoned.

In the latest issue of the literary quarterly McSweeney’s, 10 short-story writers imagine what the world might look like in 20 years without effective climate action.

At their best, urban green spaces have the power to restore our weary souls—and maybe even to curb sprawl. Why do we so often treat them like civic afterthoughts?

A newly proposed rule would let Andrew Wheeler decide what kind of science is—and isn’t—allowed to inform our country’s public health protections.

While the state smoldered, the president lashed out at Governor Newsom—and completely ignored the role played by climate change.

The International Energy Agency says solar is about to boom (some more) and offshore wind farms could power the whole world—18 times over! If we let them, that is.

In fact, he thinks laughing about it may help us put an end to it.

Taking care of those communities distressed by the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy is an economic and ethical imperative.