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Scientist Hopes to Conserve What Could Be World's Oldest Art
By Chad de Guzman
How William Shatner Turned a Flight of Fancy Into a Lyrical Pitch For the Planet
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
NASA's Asteroid Hunter Lucy Soars Into Sky
By MARCIA DUNN / AP
Shutting Down Old Oil Rigs Is Harder—and More Expensive—Than it Sounds
By Alejandro de la Garza
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Queen Elizabeth and Greta Thunberg Are Sending the Same Message on Climate Change. Will World Leaders Listen?
The Queen's complaint comes only two weeks after Greta Thunberg made strikingly similar remarks
By Dan Stewart
October 15, 2021
'It Moved Me to Tears.' William Shatner On Briefly Going Where Some Men Have Gone Before
The iconic starship captain goes to space for real
By Jeffrey Kluger
October 14, 2021
The Energy Transition Is in Full Swing. It's Not Happening Fast Enough
Even if you follow these things closely, it can be hard to understand where the world's fight against climate change stands. On the one hand, news abounds of the clean energy revolution, as wind farms...
By Justin Worland
October 13, 2021
Why William Shatner's History-Making Spaceflight Is Something to Celebrate
The man who gave us Captain Kirk left the planet for real
By Jeffrey Kluger
October 13, 2021
Boulders On Mars Suggest a Warm and Humid Past
Jezero Crater May have Benn Home to Life
By Jeffrey Kluger
October 7, 2021
The World's First Malaria Vaccine Was Approved by the WHO
On Oct. 6, the World Health Organization recommended use of the first vaccine to fight malaria. The decision is momentous and highly anticipated for many reasons: among them is that this is the first vaccine...
By Raj Panjabi
October 7, 2021
The Storytelling Genius of Jane Goodall and Why Intellectual Arguments Don't Change Behavior
The legendary primatologist has spent decades persuading us to change the way we treat animals and the planet, and she does it one story at a time.
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
October 6, 2021
Duo Share Nobel Chemistry Prize for Work on Solar Cell Advances
Benjamin List, from the Max-Planck-Institut in Germany, and David MacMillan, a professor at Princeton University, won the award for developing “an ingenious tool” for building molecules
By Charles Daly / Bloomberg
October 6, 2021
More Men Than Women Are Now Single
Almost a third of adult single men live with a parent
By Belinda Luscombe
October 5, 2021
Biden Is Feeling the Climate Pressure As COP26 Looms
"People's worst fear is that...the political system in the United States can't deliver."
By Justin Worland
October 5, 2021
How to Invest in Companies That Are Actually Helping the Environment
ESG funds—investment funds that are supposed to include companies that score the highest marks in environmental, social and governance factors—have become increasingly popular as more people look to put their money where their environmental concerns...
By Mark Dent
October 5, 2021
What We Have In Common With Humans Of 23,000 Years Ago
For all of our 21st-century trappings, our human paths align across the millennia.
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
October 4, 2021
Workers Accuse Bezos' Blue Origin of Sexism and Safety Risks
A group of more than 20 current and former employees are accusing Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket ship company of being a toxic work environment and not adhering to proper safety protocols. The workers claim...
By Associated Press
October 1, 2021
U.S. Fishermen Are Making Their Last Stand Against Offshore Wind
“They are, in some sense, mutually exclusive.”
By Alejandro de la Garza
September 30, 2021
The Enduring Hope of Jane Goodall
In the early years of World War II, when Jane Goodall was around 6 years old, she was often woken from her sleep by the blare of air-raid sirens. The sound warned that Nazi planes...
By Ciara Nugent
September 30, 2021
Is Reusable Packaging Actually Better for the Environment?
When you toss a plastic bottle into your recycling bin, there’s no guarantee it actually gets recycled. In fact, odds are, it doesn’t. According to the World Economic Forum, just 14% of plastic packaging is...
By Jamie Ducharme
September 28, 2021
EPA to Drastically Limit Hydrofluorocarbons Used in Refrigerators and Air Conditioners
The move intends to decrease U.S. production and use of the highly potent greenhouse gases by 85% over the next 15 years
By MATTHEW DALY/AP
September 23, 2021
Meet the 14-Year-Old Earthshot Finalist Who Invented a Solar Ironing Cart
Vinisha Umashankar is the youngest of 15 finalists for a £1 million award launched by Prince William
By Abhishyant Kidangoor
September 23, 2021
Richard Powers on His New Novel, 'Bewilderment'
"I think the book holds open the possibility of a more joyous and a more rewarding way of being in the world"
By Elijah Wolfson
September 23, 2021
What Would a Climate-Conscious Facebook Look Like?
'The initiatives that [Facebook] took are far too little, far too late.'
By Alejandro de la Garza
September 22, 2021
Fossil Fuel Companies Say Hydrogen Made From Natural Gas Is a Climate Solution. But the Tech May Not Be Very Green
But the tech may not actually be very green
By Alejandro de la Garza
September 22, 2021
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
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
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