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Mark GongloffBloomberg |
In poll after poll, Americans say they care about climate change. But then again, they also say they care about democracy, women’s rights and other...
Maybe it never rains in Southern California, but for about a month this fall it also never rained in New York City, which this week asked citizens to...
If you live in any of nearly 100 countries around the world, worry about climate change and want your government to do something to help, then it...
When we think about the economic damage of climate change, most of us probably think about the physical destruction wrought by mammoth disasters like...
If you enjoy having migraine headaches, you might want to spend some time thinking about the future of Florida’s housing market in an era of...
It may be hard to believe, but about a month ago, people were calling this year’s hurricane season a bust. Now we’re facing a second devastating...
There’s an old saying that a recession is when you lose your job and a depression is when I lose mine. A similar logic applies to floods. Hurricane...
If you were asked to draw the front lines of climate change on a map of the US, you’d probably include all the coasts, along with Arizona,...
What more fitting way to wrap up Climate Week than with a monster natural disaster that was almost certainly made stronger and more destructive by...
Americans are increasingly familiar with the many joys of wildfire smoke: stinging eyes, raspy throats, aggravated health conditions, speed-learning...
“Campaign in poetry, govern in prose,” former New York Governor Mario Cuomo once famously advised politicians. For some reason, this rule...
Can a flood be called a thousand-year flood if it happens every five years? That’s a question worth asking this week in the southern US, central...
Imagine you borrow $1 million from me, and then I burn down your house and steal your car so you can’t drive to work anymore. But then I offer you a...
If I had to grade the debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump from a climate perspective, I would give it a C,...
When our early ancestors discovered the many benefits of chucking logs in a fire, the concept of “clean energy” would likely have been much harder...
Humans can survive whole days without food, shelter or internet, but they can’t last long without water. Which is why it’s so weird that American...
Before “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” was a Taylor Swift song, it was a punch line to a Paula Poundstone joke from the 1980s about how,...
With the planet heating up and nature growing more deadly and destructive, new tools to help people gauge their climate risks are landing faster than...
Politicians usually pay attention to issues that two-thirds of Americans agree on because politicians want votes, and paying attention to popular...
Four years ago, the rise of remote work created a new version of the American dream: No longer forced to live close to the office, millions of people...
Cassandras seldom get opportunities to be right about two disasters. Even the original Cassandra scored no notable victories after predicting the fall...
“Weird” is the word of the hour in US politics. But it also does a good job of describing how natural disasters are behaving as the planet heats...
For decades, global warming was widely seen as a tomorrow problem, something for our hapless grandchildren to worry about. But with heat records...
Fighting climate change is difficult partly because humans are weird. It’s difficult to get them to care about their own future well-being much less...
Imagine you’re one of the world’s wealthiest people and the chief executive officer of one of the world’s biggest electric-car makers. It’s an...
The early days of Covid-19 were a nightmare of packed hospitals and the constant wail of ambulances, the kind of apocalyptic scenes nobody wants to...
Pop quiz time: Which US state is the most vulnerable to climate-fueled weather disasters and soaring home-insurance costs but is also growing rapidly...
When the US Supreme Court last week trashed decades of legal precedent to declare itself the final arbiter of all regulatory questions, many people...
Climate change is a kind of global stress test, exposing flaws in the underpinnings of human civilization and forcing us to fix them before they fail....
There’s good debt and there’s bad debt. Good debt is a $465 million government loan for your fledgling electric-car company that helps it become...
Unlike other natural disasters, extreme heat doesn’t topple buildings, flood streets or turn road signs into missiles. It doesn’t provide a...
When you hear the phrase “billion-dollar disaster,” you probably think of something epic and nightmarish, like a Category 5 hurricane or a mammoth...
The late economist Milton Friedman, the patron saint of conservative capitalism, didn’t have much use for government involvement in business. But he...
Gardi Sugdub is a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast that is jammed from end to end with housing for about 1,300 members of the indigenous...
The record-smashing global heat of the past year has been driven partly by an El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean. The good news is that El...
In his must-read book The Heat Will Kill You First , author Jeff Goodell talks to an Arizona State University infrastructure expert about the...
If you’ve ever carried a credit-card balance, you know the pain of watching interest charges accumulate, turning what was once a high but manageable...
When King Canute commanded the tide to stop, he was trying to make a point about the limits of his powers. It seems Florida Governor Ron DeSantis...
The toxic smoke choking swathes of the Midwestern US this week is a helpful reminder to Americans that Canada exists, and its wildfire season has...
If you are still uncertain about Donald Trump’s stance on climate change, then the fact that fossil-fuel companies are helping to pay his legal...
If the Car Crash Fairy offered you a deal that would lower your odds of getting in a car accident, but the trade-off was that any accidents you did...
Elon Musk may not like to talk about this, but Tesla Inc. probably wouldn’t be one of the world’s biggest automakers today if not for a $465...
If you were shopping for toaster ovens and your choice was between one that posed a 1% chance of setting your house on fire and a competing one that...
In the fictional world of the P.D. James novel Children of Men and its movie adaptation, humanity has lost the ability to reproduce and thus faces...
Imagine you were running for king of the world on a platform of slashing economic growth by 20% forever. You’d be lucky to get your own family to...
Many Americans were surprised last year when smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away turned their air toxic. There’s no excuse for anybody to be...
There’s an old proverb about how the lack of a horseshoe nail can doom a horse, then a rider, then an army, then a kingdom. In terms of the US...
A fun thing about the dot-com and crypto booms was how companies with no previous connection to dot-com or crypto added those terms to their names and...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell often argues the central bank has no business making climate-change policy. But it should be careful it doesn’t...
Picture a future of electric cars everywhere, including your driveway, along with the charging stations necessary to keep them running. Head downtown...