Antarctic bound on a search for clues to Earth’s future
As vast, wild and beyond our comprehending as Antarctica may seem, its melting ice could decide the fates of coastal communities for centuries to come
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Before Electric Vehicles Became Political, There Was the Toyota Prius
The political polarization of battery-powered cars may have started when Toyota released its first hybrid model 25 years ago.
Bound for Antarctica: A Trip to Study the Thwaites Glacier Is Underway
The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they head there with scientists trying gauge the dangers.
After a Hard Year for Environmental Justice, Chicago Communities Are Picking Up the Pieces
When the EPA abruptly terminated “Community Change” grants, the impacts rippled across the country. Chicago groups that won and then lost one of those grants are still feeling the impacts. By Amber X. Chen In her 40 years as an…
A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot
From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times Looking back on this crazy year, one event, right at the start, seems to me to encapsulate the whole. In January,…
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‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?
With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more When Céüze 2000 ski resort closed at the end of the season in 2018, the workers assumed they would be back the…
Sri Lanka looks to build disaster-resilient housing after devastating cyclone
ARANAYAKA, Sri Lanka — Bandara Jayaratne from Beraliya, a village in the Aranayaka region in Sri Lanka, is among the fortunate individuals who escaped a landslide on Nov. 28 that occurred right behind his house. Landslides aren’t a new phenomenon…
Jay M. Savage, witness to disappearing frogs and builder of tropical science
In the late 1980s, something began to go wrong in places that were supposed to be safe. Protected cloud forests, buffered from chainsaws and bulldozers, started losing animals that had persisted through far rougher times. Amphibians—often abundant, often overlooked—were vanishing…
Why We Are Going to the Fastest-Melting Glacier
How much time does the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica have left? Our reporter Raymond Zhong and our photographer Chang W. Lee are joining scientists and engineers who measure how much sea levels could rise as a result of melting ice.