climate crisis
This Man Is So Anxious About the Climate, He Wants Medically Assisted Suicide
Howard Breen’s anxiety about the planet is so bad that he’s asked Canada to let him die. Will he be accepted into the program?
India’s Heat Wave Is a Grim Warning for Deadly ‘Wet Bulb’ Temperatures
Climate models once anticipated that these temperatures would not occur until the mid-21st century, but they’re already here.
Just Stop Oil: The Young Climate Activists Shutting Down Fossil Fuels
Many are in their late teens and early 20s, and are willing to take radical action and risk arrest to put an end to our dependence on oil.
Joe Manchin Wants to Let Companies Keep Polluting in Private, Thanks
Manchin came out swinging against a plan to make companies disclose their role in causing climate change.
Surreal Photos of People Living Alongside Coal Power Plants
Dan Wilton documents the communities that have sprung up alongside the furnaces of the fossil fuel industry.
How Big Oil Used Facebook to Push Joe Manchin to Kill Build Back Better
The American Petroleum Institute bought Facebook ads urging residents of Sen. Joe Manchin’s state to “thank” him for being a “champion” of U.S. energy.
How to Sue a Government Over Climate Change
Gluing yourself to the road is one way to protest environmental collapse. Suing fossil fuel companies is another.
Climate Researchers on the Most Hopeful Things They’ve Seen Yet
It's not all doom and gloom in our ongoing environmental crisis.
15 Bleak Photos From 2021 That Sum Up the World’s Climate Crisis
Wildfires, droughts, flooding, toxic rivers, and more wildfires. Here are the pictures that captured a year of extreme weather events, which scientists have tied the number and intensity of to climate change.
Worrying About the Climate Crisis Is Affecting People’s Relationships and Sex Lives
Some worry about the environmental cost of having children, while others feel guilty about condoms polluting the ocean.
Climate Scientists on the Most Shocking Thing They’ve Seen
“When you walk under a tree in one of these heat waves... You see dead birds on the ground.”
BC Flooding Sees Thousands of Animals Dead, Panic-Buying, Troops Sent In
Several forecasts in B.C. predict ongoing rainfall, even as floods subside and people embark on a "mammoth cleanup."