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June 12, 2026
Kate Aronoff
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Wants Us to Think He’s Building a God
He acts like he has special knowledge about how best to regulate his company. But he’s a CEO like any CEO, and he wants what all CEOs want: to write his own rules.
June 11, 2026
Mark Hertsgaard
The Hottest World Cup in History Has Arrived
Science blames the scorching hot temperatures on global warming, but will sports reporters make the climate connection?
June 9, 2026
Mark Hertsgaard
Why Did NPR Fire Its Climate Editor?
Meanwhile, an exceptional AFP exposé shows what’s needed.
June 8, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Administration Steps in to Help Ally Violate Environmental Laws
The Trump administration has intervened to squash a criminal investigation into coal companies owned by West Virginia Governor Jim Justice.
June 8, 2026
Liza Featherstone
MAGA Is Worried About Male Fertility. Trump Is Killing Their Sperm.
There’s some scientific backing for the idea that sperm count is declining. But Republican environmental policies are making it worse.
June 5, 2026
Aaron Regunberg
How Big Oil Wrecked Your Summer
Climate change is making it increasingly hard to have fun in the sun—and the leading fossil fuel corporations have long known this was going to happen.
June 3, 2026
Finn Hartnett
Ivanka Trump’s Private Island Dream Faces Massive Blowback
Albania has opened a corruption probe as thousands of people protest the development.
June 2, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Federal Agency Working to Stop Invasive Bugs Invaded by Bugs
Government employees are getting sick after being forced to show up to work amid a bedbug infestation.
June 2, 2026
Kate Aronoff
Meet the Far-Right Nepo Baby Vying to Deregulate Texas’s Fossil Fuels
Bo French is running a deranged culture-war campaign for a spot on the powerful Texas Railroad Commission. The race says everything about where Republicans are today.
May 28, 2026
Kate Aronoff
Trump Quietly Weakened Heat Rules Just in Time for a Broiling Summer
Rather than outright scrapping Biden-era regulations, the White House simply degraded them. Is it hoping people just won’t notice?
May 26, 2026
Kate Aronoff
Trump Twisted a Climate Debate Beyond Recognition
Researchers concluded that one future climate scenario is unlikely to happen. Right-wingers went wild.
May 19, 2026
Kate Aronoff
Elon Musk and Sam Altman Are on the Same Side
Don’t let the legal disputes and social media skirmishes deceive you: The AI titans are all working toward the same thing.
May 15, 2026
Mark Hertsgaard
The Hantavirus Is Also a Climate Warning
Higher temperatures, like this coming summer’s, bring more infectious diseases.
May 15, 2026
Kate Aronoff
Trump’s FEMA Is an Unnatural Disaster
The president has staffed the agency in charge of federal disaster response with a rotating cast of fools—and it’s showing.
May 13, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Secretary of the Interior Has No Idea How Solar Power Works
Doug Burgum suggested on Wednesday that solar power would not be available after the sun set.
May 13, 2026
Kate Aronoff
Here’s How Democrats Should Talk About Climate Change
Rather than treating it like a niche issue, candidates should offer concrete policies that assume global warming is the context in which all politics happens.
May 8, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
FEMA Caught Blocking Grants to States That Didn’t Vote for Trump
The Trump administration is doing everything it can to target Democratic states.
May 7, 2026
Kate Aronoff
Louisiana Republicans Seem Content to Let New Orleans Drown
While local lawmakers obsess over how to keep Democrats in majority-Black districts from governing, their state is literally shrinking.
May 1, 2026
Kate Aronoff
Trump’s Iran War Is Smashing His Fossil Fuel Dreams
The president wanted to ensure American hegemony and global energy dominance. Instead, he might be torpedoing both.
April 29, 2026
Kate Aronoff
Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Dodge His MAHA Critics
As adherents of the Make America Healthy Again movement get angry about Republicans’ reluctance to regulate glyphosate, the EPA administrator wants people to pay attention to anything but his record.
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