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EPA to Drastically Limit Hydrofluorocarbons Used in Refrigerators and Air Conditioners
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But the tech may not actually be very green
By Alejandro de la Garza
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Mars Was Always Destined to Die
The Red Planet was doomed from the start, a new study finds
By Jeffrey Kluger
September 21, 2021
7 Questions With Italian Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti
On private space travel, the 'Overview Effect' and more
By Jeffrey Kluger
September 20, 2021
Many Green Funds Don't Live Up to Their Claims, Report Finds
Green investment funds are proliferating—and so is the dubious practice of "greenwashing"
By Amy Gunia
September 20, 2021
Rich Nations to Miss Climate Fund Goal Even by 2025
It threatens the success of COP26 talks in November and Paris Agreement climate goals, Oxfam International said.
By John Ainger / Bloomberg
September 20, 2021
Inspiration4 Crew Safely Splashes Down Off Florida Coast
'It was a heck of a ride for us'
By Marcia Dunn / Associated Press
September 19, 2021
Prince William Unveils Earthshot Finalists
Five winners will be chosen from the 15 finalists, and each will receive a grant worth £1 million ($1.4 million)
By Sylvia Hui / Associated Press
September 17, 2021
Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Protection Drops by 36% After 12 Months
In a preprint study, the company announced the latest results from its ongoing study of vaccine efficacy
By Alice Park
September 16, 2021
Liftoff! Inspiration4 Makes Space History
In the end, the camping trip up the flank of Mt. Rainier that the Inspiration4 crew made back in April may have done more than anything else to prepare them for tonight's successful launch into...
By Jeffrey Kluger
September 15, 2021
Watch Live as the Inspiration4 Crew Launches to Space
Join TIME and Netflix as we bring you the launch of Inspiration4—the first-ever all-civilian orbital mission—live
By TIME Staff
September 13, 2021
Warming Arctic Has U.S. Coast Guard Worried For the Country
A version of this story first appeared in the Climate is Everything newsletter. If you’d like sign up to receive this free once-a-week email, click here. One of the perks of going out on a...
By Aryn Baker
September 13, 2021
Cities Have Firefighters and Trash Collectors. As the Climate Breaks Down, Do They Also Need Resilience Corps?
When Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans in early September, Tonya Freeman-Brown made the difficult decision to stay in the city. The 53 year-old and her family sheltered in an old brick hotel in the downtown...
By Ciara Nugent
September 10, 2021
A Landslide Is Disrupting Denali National Park
The landslide, which is the result of permafrost thawing below the earth's surface, is damaging the park's only road.
By Andrew R. Chow / Denali, Alaska
September 7, 2021
Seabed Mining May Solve Our Energy Crisis
At the bottom of the ocean lies a solution to the imminent battery shortage—at a great potential cost to biodiversity and life on earth.
By Aryn Baker
September 7, 2021
How Can Cities Stop Subways Flooding in the Climate Crisis?
As the remnants of Hurricane Ida passed over the northeast Wednesday night, dumping a record-shattering 3.15 inches of rain on New York City in a single hour, water began to pour into the city’s subways....
By Ciara Nugent
September 3, 2021
Nursing Home Vaccine Mandates Have a Tradeoff
Some two weeks before U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Aug. 18 that nursing homes must require their staff to get vaccinated or risk losing their Medicare and Medicaid funding, Genesis HealthCare, which manages about...
By Tara Law
September 2, 2021
Can Hurricane Ida Move Public Opinion on Climate Change?
A version of this story first appeared in the Climate is Everything newsletter. If you’d like sign up to receive this free once-a-week email, click here. For many climate reporters, myself included, the arrival of...
By Justin Worland
September 2, 2021
How Engineers Protected New Orleans From Hurricane Ida
"We were making the decisions so it wouldn’t come back to haunt us.”
By Alejandro de la Garza
September 2, 2021
How Extreme Heat Hurts Jobs and the Economy
By driving down productivity, extreme heat could cost the U.S. economy $500 billion by 2050, per an Aug. 31 report by the Atlantic Council
By Ciara Nugent
August 31, 2021
Yes, We Can Grow 1 Trillion Trees to Help Fight Climate Change
We are in a planetary emergency. Horrific heat waves and fires blaze across North America, Turkey and Russia. Extreme floods wreak destruction and cause death from Europe to Africa to Asia. Ocean temperatures and the...
By Jad Daley
August 27, 2021
California's Wildfire Problem Could Be Solved by a Few Legal Changes
Some aspects of the crisis might be fixed with a paper and pen
By Alejandro de la Garza
August 26, 2021
Fighting Wildfires, Siberian Villagers Use What They Have
Shovels, axes, and Soviet-era tractors make up much of their arsenal against the blazes
By Alejandro de la Garza
August 26, 2021
I'm Supposed to Be in a Wedding. Will I Risk COVID-19?
A reader asks for help navigating a tricky question
By Tara Law
August 24, 2021
UAE Unlikely to Set Net-Zero Emissions Target Before COP26
No major OPEC producer has announced a net-zero target, and the UAE was among the most likely to do so before the COP26 in Glasgow
By Verity Ratcliffe / Bloomberg
August 24, 2021
In the Face of Climate Change, We Must Act So That We Can Feel Hopeful—Not the Other Way Around
In the 1850s, an American scientist named Eunice Foote deduced, based on experiments she’d conducted, that if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were higher, the planet would be warmer. And in the 1890s, a...
By Katharine Hayhoe
August 12, 2021
Auto Workers May Be Left Behind As Industry Shifts Green
The AFL-CIO estimates that 25-30% of auto-making jobs could disappear in the industry’s transition
By Justin Worland
August 11, 2021
Inspiration4: The Quest to Push the Limits of Space Travel
TIME Studios is producing the Netflix documentary series Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space, starting Sept. 6. Jared Isaacman is not likely to forget the day he almost died at 10,000 ft., back in 2011....
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 10, 2021
Meet the All-Civilian Crew of Inspiration4
From a childhood cancer survivor to an aerospace engineer
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 10, 2021
St. Jude's Fundraising Chief on Space and Pushing Boundaries
St. Jude has always been about pushing boundaries and taking what seems like impossible and making it possible.'
By Belinda Luscombe
August 10, 2021
The Latest IPCC Report Says We're Probably Going to Pass the 1.5°C Climate Threshold. What's Next?
Three years ago the United Nations climate science body issued a landmark report warning that the planet was on track to blow past efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, a threshold...
By Justin Worland
August 9, 2021
The One Silver Lining in the Bleak IPCC Report
Climate scientists are blaming weather disasters on climate change. That could be a weapon in the fight to cut emissions
By Alejandro de la Garza
August 9, 2021
Inspiration4 and the Long History of Civilian Space Flight
The Inspiration4 mission, while historic in its own right, is just the latest in a history of civilian space flights spanning four decades
By Olivia B. Waxman
August 9, 2021
The Language Of Climate Change Just Changed in a Major Way
In so many ways, not much has changed since the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—perhaps the premiere climate science-and-policy organization in the world—published its last major report in 2014. Just as it...
By Elijah Wolfson
August 9, 2021
'Widespread and Severe'
The new U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is unequivocal: The impacts of climate change are already here, writes climatologist Michael E. Mann
By Michael E. Mann
August 9, 2021
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Is a Return to the Old Way of Politics. That’s A Problem for the Climate
The bipartisan infrastructure package being negotiated in the Senate promises to fund some important climate programs, with sizable expenditures for cleaning up abandoned oil wells, replacing lead pipes and repairing roads and bridges. The $50...
By Michael E. Mann
August 6, 2021
Inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon That Inspiration4 Will Fly to Space
The Dragon takes care of everything, so enjoy the ride—unless, something goes wrong. And something can always go wrong
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 6, 2021
The World Has Been On Fire. Here’s What It Looks Like
Photos of the many countries across the northern hemisphere this summer experiencing the worst wildfires in years of recorded history
By Ciara Nugent
August 5, 2021
How the Inspiration4 Crew Trained to Go to Space
"I wanted them to get comfortable with being uncomfortable because not everything about space will be comfortable."
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 5, 2021
Populations are Growing in Flood-Prone Areas
The number of people living in flood-prone areas is growing faster than in other places, and at a much faster rate than scientists had previously expected, a study published Aug. 4 in the journal Nature...
By Ciara Nugent
August 4, 2021
Who Is an Astronaut in the Age of Private Space Flights?
With private space flight on the rise, paying customers can blast off for orbit. But does a spacecraft ticket make one an astronaut?
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 4, 2021
Everything You Need to Know About the Inspiration4 Mission
The Inspiration4 mission marks a turning point in which space is within the grasp of private corporations and citizens
By Alejandro de la Garza
August 4, 2021
MRNA's Next Chapter Has Nothing to Do With COVID Vaccines
It’s safe to say that before the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, most people hadn’t thought about messenger RNA, or mRNA, since high school science class—if ever. The molecule plays a pivotal...
By Jamie Ducharme
August 2, 2021
Now Is Our Chance to Rebuild U.S. Public Schools To Address Both Climate Change and Racial Inequality
When school facilities closed for in-person learning in early March 2020, the assumption was that the shutdown and pandemic would be temporary blips in the memory of our students. Some 16 months later, school facilities...
By Akira Drake Rodriguez
July 30, 2021
The ‘Overview Effect’ Forever Changes Some Astronauts’ Attitudes Towards Earth—But You Don’t Need to Go to Space to Experience It
A different look at the Earth
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 30, 2021
Climate Disasters Are Making It Hard to Enjoy the Olympics. And I’m Not Sure I Want to, Anyway
In the midst of catastrophe, mass recreations of normalcy can deepen our sense of unease
By Alejandro de la Garza
July 29, 2021
We're in a Water Crisis. We Need to Act Like It
One of the greatest lessons of the pandemic is that we can meet the challenges of existential threats when we combine the collective power of our creativity, innovation and industry. As the climate crisis worsens,...
By José Andrés
July 27, 2021
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