How greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry
Seoul had a solution to the world’s energy problems. Then everything went wrong.
View ArticleClimate change has already made poor countries poorer and rich countries richer
But few nations will be spared as temperatures rise further.
View ArticleThe desperate race to cool the ocean before it’s too late
Holly Jean Buck is a fellow at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. This is an adapted excerpt from her upcoming book After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration...
View ArticleWelcome to climate change
Time to start talking less about the technology for preventing global warming and more about the technology we’ll need to live with it.
View ArticleThe American Midwest will feed a warming world. But for how long?
Rising temperatures will endanger the US corn belt, a key source of calories for the growing global population.
View ArticleA powerful new model could make global warming estimates less vague
One of the biggest sources of climate uncertainty is how clouds will behave. Caltech physicist Tapio Schneider is trying to give us some answers.
View ArticleThe one number you need to know about climate change
The social cost of carbon could guide us toward intelligent policies—if only we knew what it was.
View ArticleThe accident that led to the discovery of climate-change-proof coffee
Extreme weather could wipe out existing breeds of coffee plants in Central America. But researchers are making genetic improvements.
View ArticleIndia’s water crisis is already here. Climate change will compound it.
Droughts and floods have pushed the nation’s leaky, polluted, and half-done water systems to the brink.
View ArticleHow do cow herders spot water in the Sahara? With satellites, of course.
Climate change makes it even harder to find water on the edge of the Sahara. Now herders in Mali rely on images from space to direct them to the nearest watering hole.
View ArticleThe “mind-boggling” task of protecting New York City from rising seas
There are plans to fortify the city’s 520 miles of coast—but some of them will be unpopular.
View ArticleWhy seaweed is strangling Mexican tourism, and how science could help
Sargassum is infesting Mexico’s coastline. Researchers are scrambling to stop an ecological crisis, and maybe even make something good of it.
View ArticleWhat one woman’s quest to save her neighbors reveals about climate resilience
The weather will get worse, but that doesn’t mean disasters have to.
View ArticleInside Australia’s plan to survive bigger, badder bushfires
Unprecedented wildfires are breaking out all over the world. Is Australia leading the way in fighting them?
View ArticleIndia’s surging economy could doom climate efforts—unless richer nations step up
No matter how fast the country builds new solar and wind farms, that alone won’t be enough.
View ArticleThe economic argument behind the Green New Deal
Economist Mariana Mazzucato explains how rethinking industrial policy could be key to tackling climate change.
View ArticleGet ready for tens of millions of climate refugees
Researchers are creating models of where people will move when climate shocks hit, but so far we’re just making educated guesses.
View ArticleLessons from a genocide can prepare humanity for climate apocalypse
The bad news is that our slow-motion ecological catastrophe demands new ways of thinking. The good news? We’ve faced the end of the world before.
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