Browsing: environment

In 2025, the two biggest societal disruptors we face will collide: AI and climate change.The summer of 2024 broke the record for Earth’s hottest day since…

According to the United Nations, plastic production has soared from 2 million tons in 1950 to about 400 million tons in 2024. This number is expected…

Let’s start with the following principles.Energy is the only universal currency. To get something done you need to convert it from one of its many formats”…

Elsewhere, Mars is trying to get to the literal root of the problem by improving the resilience of its most important cocoa plants. The food giant…

In 2025, A small indigenous tribe that calls itself “People of Color” will return to their homeland for the first time in 80 years. Their return…

In 2025, there will be a fundamental shift in the language of climate politics. We’ll hear much less from scientists and policymakers about “emissions reductions” and…

Many places are becoming increasingly uninhabitable. And around a quarter of humanity is already facing drought and associated food insecurity. By 2070, one-fifth of the planet…

Humidity makes Shanghai’s heat even more unbearablelukyeee1976/Getty Images “My office was like a steamship on Monday morning,” Chinese influencer Bi Dao wrote in a social media…

Mr. Zeldin, a 44-year-old lawyer and former Army lieutenant, has no experience in environmental policy. He entered politics in 2011 through the New York State Senate,…

Lithium for batteries is mined in Chile’s Atacama DesertJohn Moore/Getty Images power metalvince visor (Wildfire Books (UK, November 20th); Riverhead Books (US, November 19th)) The smartphone…