Antarctica Is in Extreme Peril
Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents — a great sheet of ice set in...
The International Seabed Authority’s War With Itself
For the last three decades, the United Nations-affiliated body called the International Seabed Authority, or ISA, has been working in...
This Fuel Is 50% Plastic — and It’s Slipping Through a Loophole in International Waste Law
Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify...
How Reducing the US Military Budget Would Also Reduce Emissions
The next time you’re on a flight worrying about destroying the planet, rest easy knowing that at least you’re not...
Pollution From Wildfires Can Contaminate Our Water for up to 8 Years, Study Finds
When wildfires devastated a wide swath of Los Angeles last winter, officials warned residents of several ZIP codes not to...
The Science Behind Texas’ Catastrophic Floods
Rescue crews are scrambling to find survivors of catastrophic flooding that tore through Central Texas on the Fourth of July....
Climate Disasters Can Alter Kids’ Brains — Before They’re Even Born
When Superstorm Sandy made a beeline for New York City in October 2012, it flooded huge swaths of downtown Manhattan,...
The Weird Way That Penguin Poop Might Be Cooling Antarctica
In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth:...
Earth’s Orbit Is Filling Up With Junk. Greenhouse Gases Are Making the Problem Worse.
At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This...
How the World Gave up on 1.5 Degrees
When, at the annual United Nations climate conference in Paris in 2015, the countries of the world agreed to the...
‘We Lost’: How COP29 Ended With a Deal That Made the Whole World Unhappy
Two weeks ago, diplomats from almost 200 countries arrived at a sports stadium on the outskirts of Baku, Azerbaijan, to...
The US No Longer Supports Capping Plastic Production in UN Treaty
The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics...
