Vice President Mike Pence, left, and President Tweety McTreason, right, at a press conference on Feb. 26, 2020.Photo: Evan Vucci (AP)The latest news from the White House on the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus, which the Centers for Disease Control has warned is likely to hit the U.S. imminently, is not very reassuring: Vice…
The dark, rocky face of the Dois Irmãos Mountain rises over the rainforest and through the clouds, overlooking the largest slum in Latin America. A young man emerges from around the corner of an alleyway to meet me with a handgun tucked under his arm; the local gang’s “manager.” Weaving our way down the hill…
Everyone seems to agree trees are a major solution to climate change, but there is…
The climate crisis is here, but not on the tabletop.Illustration: Benjamin Currie (io9)Game designer Elizabeth Hargrave helped jumpstart a tabletop revolution with Wingspan, an environmental board game about creating habitats for birds. Her upcoming release, Mariposas, has players guiding monarch butterflies on their migration. But there’s something unsettling lurking beneath the table.“It’s easy to overlook…
The UK’s climate action champion said he hoped 60% of world economic output will be…
Dutch Supreme Court has ordered the government to cut emissions by 25% by 2020 but…
Credit: Getty ImagesIncreasing or decreasing the altitude of aircraft a few thousand feet to avoid thin layers of humidity could make a deep cut to contrails’ contribution to climate change. Airplanes account for about three percent of the climate-altering carbon dioxide emissions we add to the atmosphere. But planes are warming the planet in another…
Stone tools found in central India suggest that ancient South Asians stayed the course after…
Arriving at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in October 2016, Tim Gordon thought he was living…
Tomato prices in Kenya have skyrocketed in recent weeks, with some parts of the country paying up to seven times more. The price rises follow months of heavy rains across East Africa. But could climate change be contributing to the problem?The BBC’s Mercy Juma reports from the farmlands of Kenya.Produced by Gladys Kigo, Video by…
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation unveiled that a proactive climate resilience system…
This winter has hardly been a winter at all; there have already been several 50+ degree weekends. There was one weekend in January that felt like a weekend in May, which was lovely, but sitting outside in the park in just a t-shirt in the middle of winter felt sick and wrong, like the earth…
