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## Elijah Wolfson


Elijah Wolfson is an editorial director at TIME, where he oversees climate change, health, and science coverage. He has written on topics ranging from the shifting language of climate change and the U.S. COVID-19 response to cultural analysis of books, film, and television. His work has been recognized for awards by the National Association of Science Writers and the Columbia School of Journalism, among others.


![Elijah Wolfson](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31f1bf07216df964/698a3dbe86f68e31cf6f2836/elijah-headshot.jpeg?branch=production&width=96&quality=75&auto=webp)

## Elijah Wolfson


* ![VinFast Makes its First Shipment of Vehicles to US](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb084af8b1743423/698a3feae6e84a5b5d2b06b8/vinfast-first-shipment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 31, 2023  
### [What to Make of VinFast's Wild Week On Wall Street](https://time.com/6310098/vinfast-ev-market-value/)  
EV-maker VinFast lost some $90 billion in market value since Aug. 28, but it still remains one of th...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Tesla Will Open Up Its Chargers To Other Brands, In Order To Receive Federal Subsidies](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e904a712183f3e1/698a3a67b3fce3b9670ca331/tesla-charging-station.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 16, 2023  
### [Tesla's EV Charging Stations Will Soon Be Universal](https://time.com/6256230/tesla-charging-stations-universal/)  
Tesla will make its electric vehicle charging stations usable by all EVs by the end of 2024\. It's no...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Dec 23, 2022  
### [How Climate Coverage in Textbooks Has Changed](https://time.com/6243262/climate-change-college-textbooks/)  
A new study looked at 57 college biology textbooks published between 1970 and 2019 to assess how cov...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Photo of a wave sculpture crafted out of recycled materials](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c5e23151f314cb2/698a332022fb85c621e2d999/oceans-2022-opener-waves.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 23, 2022  
### [The Ocean Is Climate Change’s First Victim and Last Resort](https://time.com/6190044/ocean-climate-change/)  
Escalating tragedies are at hand beneath the waters that make up over 70% of earth’s surface.  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![hiro-murai](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7af3332bbf87da18/698a323416d8840887c3aafb/GettyImages-1239481565.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 25, 2022  
### [How _Atlanta_ Director Hiro Murai Helped Bring Surrealism to Prestige TV](https://time.com/6180758/hiro-murai-interview-atlanta/)  
[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/)  
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Mar 1, 2022  
### [The New Language of Climate Change Inequality: IPCC](https://time.com/6152923/ipcc-climate-change-inequality/)  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Marlon James at Vanity Fair's 6th Annual New Establishment Summit](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt98ef85fd4a1f99e2/698a227922fb8575c8e2d21c/marlon-james.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 15, 2022  
### [How Marlon James Is Rewriting the Rules of Fantasy Fiction](https://time.com/6148335/moon-witch-spider-king-marlon-james-interview/)  
[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/)
* ![Workshops of the tanners on the banks of Bievre in Paris, in the district of the Gobelins in 1891](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56af49f1dd6f025b/698a210db3fce358d10c8cac/Bievre-Paris-1891.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 24, 2022  
### [Paris Resurfaces Buried Bièvre River to Fight Climate Change](https://time.com/6131545/paris-bievre-river-climate-change/)  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Richard Powers in England on Oct. 13, 2018.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfbad18e383e30bea/698a1d28457a520afcd6586f/richard-powers-Bewilderment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 23, 2021  
### [Richard Powers on His New Novel, 'Bewilderment'](https://time.com/6100785/richard-powers-bewilderment-q-and-a/)  
"I think the book holds open the possibility of a more joyous and a more rewarding way of being in t...  
[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/)
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Aug 9, 2021  
### [The Language Of Climate Change Just Changed in a Major Way](https://time.com/6088583/ipcc-report-climate-change-language/)  
[SCIENCE](/section/science/)  
* ![Top Chef - Season 18](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61ec3c86547efb84/698a1ab8b21a9c70e3504efd/top-chef-finalists.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 2, 2021  
### [Let's Discuss the Top Chef: Portland Finale](https://time.com/6077660/top-chef-portland-finale/)  
Did the right person win?  
[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/)
* ![US-LIFESTYLE-WESTMINSTER](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f66605ae2b1eba4/698a1a578fd2ee2da7362a3f/westminster-dog-show-2021.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 14, 2021  
### [I Went to the Westminster Dog Show and All I Got Was This Lousy Positive View of Humanity](https://time.com/6073258/westminster-dog-show-2021/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Women hold a banner that reads “Feminists against climate change” at a 2019 protest in Madrid.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d1f9a203ca55860/698a18b0096a94afef6a947e/climate-leadership-katharine-wilkinson-maria-alejandra-escalante.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 20, 2021  
### [Women Are Transforming What Climate Leadership Looks Like](https://time.com/5953394/women-climate-leadership/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Nov 7, 2020  
### [Joe Biden's Election Win, by the Numbers](https://time.com/5908701/joe-biden-electoral-votes-breakdown/)  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)
* ![The transport team moves the body bags of deceased COVID-19 patients from the overflowing morgue of Brooklyn's Wyckoff Heights Medical Center into the improvised morgue set up outside on April 27. Three refrigerated semitrailers, capable of holding more ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31c8c3a3d23cdbbb/698a120cdb29878160265ca0/coronavirus-united-states-failure-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 10, 2020  
### [How Many More Lives Will Be Lost to COVID-19 Before the U.S. Gets It Right?](https://time.com/5887432/coronavirus-united-states-failure/)  
How the U.S. succumbed to complacency and let 200,000 people die of COVID-19  
[HEALTH](/section/health/)

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