The UN Climate Process Still Doesn't Understand the Assignment
The original sin of the UN's work was to fail to center coal, oil, and gas as the primary villains in the entire enterprise.
Dave Levitan
In Mangling CDC Vaccine Pages, RFK Jr. Is Laughing In All of Our Faces
It's a schoolyard friend saying "I promise not to tell anyone your secret" and then shouting it from on top of the jungle gym, claiming he didn't tell "anyone," he told "the sky."
New NCI Director Says Administration Overtly Hostile to Cancer Research Is "Not Backing Away" From Cancer Research
A recording of the new director's first town hall reveals how he is trying to walk a difficult line between optimism and clear-eyed realism.
What Good Are UN Climate Talks Knee-Deep in Oil?
Some new analysis from activists sheds some light on just how deep into the international climate negotiations process Big Oil has managed to burrow.
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
This Whole Thing Really Snuck Up On Us
Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.
The Long Tail of Hurricane Death Will Be Even Longer in Jamaica
A growing body of research has demonstrated that hits from tropical cyclones leave more than just damaged rooftops in their wake, in fact raising mortality rates through a likely wide variety of mechanisms for years.
A Climate-Centric Analysis of the Latest Left-Punching Screed
The fact is, more people care about this than the authors suggest. More people will care even more as the years pass because the problem is not only not going away but actively getting worse.
Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly
We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.
What Is the Biggest Hole Trump Has Ripped in the Walls?
A reasonable accounting of the major policies enacted in one way or another in the nine months of the Trump administration resembles, essentially, a series of weeping voids in the sides of various figurative edifices, now given corporeal form within view of the Treasury building.
'I Wanted My Body to Be Counted': Furloughed Federal Employees Join Enormous Day of Protest
"I can't just sit back and watch things fall apart."
Fossil Fuel Boosters Will Keep Trying to Speak Their Version of the Future Into Existence
The lemonade stand owner releasing a report on the increasing demand for lemonade is, at best, wishful thinking, and at worst, active market manipulation.