New research has revealed more examples of the National Cattlemen’s Association’s efforts to downplay and deny the industry’s ...

The Supreme Court has begun hearings on a key case, and depending on its ruling, major climate decisions could fall into the hands of our “drill, baby, drill” president.

It’s no longer news that eating meat — especially beef — is bad for the planet. But do you know why beef comes with such a ...

Waste, a problem endemic to industrial wind and solar facilities, is piling up or being scattered all over. In this essay I will leave aside discussions of the waste created in the mining, refining, ...

In Maine, as everywhere else in the country, one of this year’s biggest electoral issues is the cost of energy. The price of ...

I take the title of today’s post from the closing line of a fantastic 2014 article by Dan Sarewitz in Slate. Sarewitz wrote: “Climate change, added on top of all the other causes of these problems, ...

Faced with a president who has called global warming a hoax, officials have filed dozens of suits against oil companies to ...

One of nuclear energy’s biggest selling points is its claims of reliability. “Nuclear energy is the only large-scale power source that can be tapped in even the most extreme weather conditions, 24 ...

Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.

In an interview with Ezra Klein, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang floated the possibility that AI might offer a solution to the ...

Here’s what we know about the record-setting El Niño on a record-hot planet, and the most important questions scientists are trying to answer. The tropical Pacific has seen heat build for months as a ...

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