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The real reason your monthly gas bill keeps going up
Carrie Klein, Vox
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From the cold snap this winter to the US war with Iran, rising energy bills are making headlines. But there’s a larger story behind sp…
Apr 10, 2026, 7:50 PM
Our Burning Planet Isn’t Ready for Another "Super El Niño"
Jim Vorel, Jezebel
The U.S. just had the hottest March it's ever recorded, but sure, throw on a "super El Niño" on top of that.
Apr 10, 2026, 11:31 AM
“Economic civil war”: States push laws to shield oil and gas companies from accountability
Abrahm Lustgarten, Salon
Most bills being considered are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo
Apr 10, 2026, 10:00 AM
The surprising truth about logging
Benji Jones, Vox
The value of forest ecosystems is hard to overstate. Blanketing roughly a third of the US, they supply clean water and air, absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide, and provide homes for imperiled wildlife and a tranquil place for Americans to hunt and fish. It’…
Apr 9, 2026, 12:16 AM
NASA’s Artemis II, endangered species and oil, low western U.S. snowpack
Kendra Pierre-Louis, Andrea Thompson, Sushmita Pathak, Alex Sugiura, Scientific American
An update on NASA’s historic moon mission, alarm over the low snowpack in the western U.S. and a move that could endanger wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico
Apr 6, 2026, 10:00 AM
Democrats Need New Stories
Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic
Democratic governors’ affordability politics is trashing “what remains of U.S. climate policy,” Politico reports this week. The piece points to New York Governor Kathy Hochul trying to delay legally binding emissions targets; Maryland Governor Wes Moore “back…
Apr 4, 2026, 10:00 AM
If these whales go extinct, we’ll know who to blame
Benji Jones, Vox
In the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico lives one of the world’s rarest and most elusive marine mammals: Rice’s whale. There are just 51 of them left, according to the most recent scientific estimates, meaning they are quite literally on the knife’s edge of …
Mar 31, 2026, 8:30 PM
The Increasingly Dire Costs of the War on Iran
H. Patricia Hynes, Juancole.com
An enduring menace to the global economy, this unnecessary and illegal war also pushes the world toward long-term environmental disaster
Mar 28, 2026, 4:15 AM
Top climate scientist Kate Marvel just resigned from NASA. Here's why
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American
Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges
Mar 25, 2026, 6:00 PM
How gas prices might drive more people to switch to an EV
Tik Root, Vox
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Gasoline prices continue ticking higher as the United States and Israel’s war with Iran continues. As of March 23, the national average stands at $3…
Mar 23, 2026, 1:00 PM
US states file lawsuit challenging Trump’s revocation of climate finding
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
The Trump administration revoked key scientific finding that formed a basis for regulations to address climate change.
Mar 19, 2026, 9:07 PM
What Paul Ehrlich’s Fear of Scarcity Did to American Politics
Jacob Anbinder, The Atlantic
Ehrlich’s lurid predictions of imminent planetary doom captivated the public, but they did not come true.
Mar 19, 2026, 5:25 PM
Possessing the Painful Parts
Omari Weekes, The New York Review of Books
Tyriek White’s We Are a Haunting traces the lives of Black Brooklynites dealing with the porous boundaries between the past and the present as they forge lives amid the detritus that others have discarded.
Mar 19, 2026, 12:00 PM
Oil shock, nuclear doubts, climate‑change-driven hail, and new insights on the aging-gut-brain connection
Kendra Pierre-Louis, Dan Vergano, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Scientific American
From emergency oil reserves to nuclear scrutiny, bigger hail, and research on a connection between the aging gut and the brain
Mar 16, 2026, 10:00 AM
The more Americans learn about data centers, the less they like them
Lauren Edmonds, Business Insider
Data centers power the AI revolution, and are sprouting all over the US. They can also drain water and energy, and face growing opposition.
Mar 13, 2026, 6:08 PM
Former Climate Hero Wins Permit for 41 Gas Turbines in Mississippi
Mike Pearl, Gizmodo.com
xAI can power data centers at the cost of greenhouse gas pollution. Elon Musk used to speak out against this sort of thing.
Mar 11, 2026, 9:00 AM
No snow, no ski season: Greenland’s warmest January shuts Nuuk resort
Peter Keldorff, Al Jazeera English
Climate change fears grip Nuuk as winter temperatures reach record highs.
Mar 10, 2026, 12:48 PM
A measles surge, AI in warfare and accelerated global warming
Kendra Pierre-Louis, Sushmita Pathak, Joseph Howlett, Alex Sugiura, Scientific American
Why measles cases are rising in the U.S., how artificial intelligence is shaping warfare, and what accelerated global warming means for the world
Mar 9, 2026, 10:00 AM
The world’s biggest automaker has one of the dirtiest supply chains: report
Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge
Tesla, Ford, and Volvo occupy the top three spots in a new ranking of 18 global automakers based on their efforts to eliminate carbon emissions, environmental harms, and human rights violations from their supply chains. Toyota, meanwhile, lurks near the botto…
Mar 4, 2026, 8:22 PM
Power Hungry: How The AI Boom Is Forcing A Clean Energy Reckoning
Ken Silverstein, Senior Contributor, Ken Silverstein, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/, Forbes
Surging electricity demand from AI data centers is colliding with a federal energy policy that favors slow-build fossil fuels over fast-deploy renewables. Price impact?
Mar 1, 2026, 3:00 PM
Trump Administration Makes The Conscious Choice To Make America Less Prepared For The Next Pandemic
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
Way back in the ancient days of the year 2020, the world went through this pandemic thing called COVID-19. For those of you not old enough to remember such ancient history, it was a fairly significant health issue that caused a few disruptions throughout the …
Feb 25, 2026, 4:00 AM
Nuclear weapons testing is harmful — there’s no case for a restart
Nature.com
Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.
Feb 24, 2026, 12:00 AM
East Antarctica Is Incredibly Cold, But It Has Lost 1.85 Trillion Tons Of Ice In The Past Two Decades Due To Global Warming
Kyra Piperides, Twistedsifter.com
You might be chilly right now, but that doesn't mean the world is getting colder.
Feb 21, 2026, 8:48 PM
Why We Can’t ‘Nudge’ Our Problems Away
Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic
A new book buries the Obama-era idea that small shifts in personal behavior can greatly improve the world.
Feb 19, 2026, 1:00 PM