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climate change
How the Universal Language of Music Can Help Us Solve Our Planetary Problem
By Adam Met and Dana R. Fisher
Summers Are Becoming Unbearably Hot Before They Even Start
By Emily Barone
How Trees Could Save Karachi, Pakistan from Climate Havoc
By Aryn Baker/Karachi, Pakistan
We're Gonna Need a Greener Boat
By Alejandro de la Garza
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The Motion of the Ocean Could Be the Next Big Source of Green Energy
In 1851, Charles Babbage, the English mathematician and inventor, found himself preoccupied with what might happen should coal mines—then and now one of the primary sources of usable energy—become depleted. He concluded that “the sea...
By Tom Vanderbilt
June 23, 2022
The Ocean Is Climate Change’s First Victim and Last Resort
Escalating tragedies are at hand beneath the waters that make up over 70% of earth’s surface.
By Elijah Wolfson
June 23, 2022
The Story Behind TIME's Oceans Issue Cover
TIME has covered the planet and the dramatic damage done to it by human beings for more than a half century. With the rise of modern environmentalism came a double-width foldout on water use in...
By D.W. Pine
June 23, 2022
Colombia May Be First Oil-Rich Country to Quit Fossil Fuels
The country's new president-elect wants to end new oil exploration
By Ciara Nugent
June 22, 2022
Climate Change a Factor in 'Unprecedented' South Asia Floods
The region is considered one of the most vulnerable to rising temperatures, and the poor are disproportionately impacted
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and AL-EMRUN GARJON/AP
June 22, 2022
Mexico's Industrial Hub Suffers Weeks-Long Water Cutoff Amid Drought
A combination of an intense drought, poor planning, and high water use means residents must resort to extreme measures
By MARCOS MARTÍNEZ CHACÓN/AP
June 21, 2022
Austria Returns to Coal Era As Russia Curbs Gas to Europe
Austria’s biggest utility firm, Verbund AG, was ordered late Sunday to prepare its Mellach coal-fired station for operation
By Jonathan Tirone / Bloomberg
June 20, 2022
Rich Countries Decide To Keep Discussion of Who Pays For Climate Impacts Off the COP27 Agenda
“Developed countries don’t want to pay a cent”
By LAURA MILLAN LOMBRANA AND JOHN AINGER/BLOOMBERG
June 17, 2022
Homes Made from Straw or Fungi Can Now Get You a Cheaper Mortgage in the Netherlands
Plant-based materials help fight climate change
By Ciara Nugent
June 16, 2022
To Survive Severe Drought This Summer, California Should Learn From Cape Town's Water Crisis
Almost half the global population will experience “severe water stress” by 2030
By Aryn Baker
June 15, 2022
Heat Wave Spreads Across Europe as High Summer Temperatures Arrive Early
“Every heat wave in the current climate is enhanced or boosted by climate change”
By WILL MATHIS, LAURA MILLAN LOMBRANA, AND ALAN KATZ/BLOOMBERG
June 15, 2022
Key EU Parliament Groups Reject Plans to Label Gas and Nuclear as Green Energy
“We need massive investment in the expansion of renewable energies, not the energies of the past”
By JOHN AINGER/BLOOMBERG
June 14, 2022
Historic Flooding Forces Officials to Close Yellowstone National Park Indefinitely
"This is flooding that we’ve just never seen in our lifetimes before"
By AMY BETH HANSON/AP
June 14, 2022
Heat's Impact On The Human Body
For the third weekend in a row, large swaths of the United States have wilted under early-season heatwaves that have set high temperature records from California to Texas. Nearly 100 million Americans are facing heat...
By Aryn Baker
June 13, 2022
Joe Neguse Didn’t Come to Congress to Fight Wildfires. Climate Change Had Other Plans
Despite clear directions from my GPS, I felt certain I was in the wrong place as I drove the last mile to meet Colorado Representative Joe Neguse in March. We were meeting in the city of...
By Justin Worland/Superior, Colo.
June 10, 2022
The Ukraine Crisis Shows How Fragile Our Food Systems Are
The world’s food systems are being battered on 3 fronts: suffocated by climate change, shaken by the COVID-19 earthquake, and suffering from the cyclone of war. June’s food price index from the UN Food and...
By Lawrence Haddad
June 9, 2022
Sara Menker and Donnel Baird: Climate Change Is a Crisis, But It's Solvable
In the midst of one of the biggest challenges faced by humanity—climate change—parts of the U.S. energy system are already collapsing, ecopreneurs Sara Menker and Donnel Baird warned at the TIME 100 Summit Tuesday during...
By Nik Popli
June 7, 2022
Barbados PM's Mia Amor Mottley's Climate Warning for U.S.
“While we in the islands are the canaries, you are soon going to be the victims of that. Which country is hit by a hurricane every year, do you know? The United States."
By Sanya Mansoor
June 7, 2022
To Boost U.S. Solar Energy Production, President Biden Is Taking Emergency Measures
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered emergency measures Monday to boost crucial supplies to U.S. solar manufacturers and declared a two-year tariff exemption on solar panels from Southeast Asia as he attempted to jumpstart...
By WILL WEISSERT / AP
June 7, 2022
New York Passed Crypto Mining Ban to Support Climate Change
On June 3, the New York Senate passed the U.S.’s first statewide moratorium on cryptocurrency mining, aimed at energy-intensive operations that use fossil fuels for power. The measure, which still needs to be signed into...
By Lindsay Muscato
June 3, 2022
Planet-Warming Carbon Dioxide Levels Are The Highest In Human History
"Humanity has to make more serious efforts and see a rapid decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, or else"
By SETH BORENSTEIN / AP
June 3, 2022
U.S. Landfills Are Getting a Second Life as Solar Farms
When landfills get capped and grassed over, they have the appearance of lush, rolling hills. Despite their green appearance, however, these sites are known as “brownfields”—a term for an environmentally hazardous site without a promising...
By Emily Barone
June 2, 2022
This Year’s Hurricane Season Threatens One of the U.S.’s Biggest Economies
Florida's insurance industry must grapple with climate change as experts predict an intense hurricane season this year.
By Alejandro de la Garza
June 2, 2022
A Global Price on Water Might Help Tackle Climate Change
"We still operate the world economy with freshwater largely as a free resource. That's a market failure."
By Ciara Nugent
May 31, 2022
Inflation is Going to Get Worse. Blame a Lack of Diesel
The fuel that powers the trucks and ships and cars that bring you stuff is in short supply.
By Alana Semuels
May 31, 2022
Sara Menker Warns About the Fallout of Rising Food Insecurity
Menker talked to TIME shortly after briefing the U.N. Security Council
By Alana Semuels
May 30, 2022
Lithium Is Key to the EV Transition—And It's in Short Supply
Lithium prices are up 400%. Experts say the supply will get worse before it gets better, with implications for the electric vehicle market
By Emily Barone
May 26, 2022
The Crypto Industry Was On Its Way to Changing the Carbon-Credit Market, Until It Hit a Major Roadblock
Crypto entrepreneurs hoped to revolutionize the carbon credit market to fight climate change. They've been met with resistance.
By Andrew R. Chow
May 26, 2022
Outdoor Workers Have Little Protection In A Warming World
As climate change makes heatwaves more likely, outdoor workers' health is increasingly at risk
By Aryn Baker
May 26, 2022
A Handful of Climate-Focused Independents Just Upended Australia’s Political System. Here’s What Comes Next
"It’s clear that Australians will no longer stand for a government that won’t act on climate change"
By Amy Gunia
May 25, 2022
China Pledges to Plant and Conserve 70 Billion Trees
China announced its plan to fight climate change at Davos 2022. But experts are skeptical.
By Charlie Campbell
May 25, 2022
Why Tesla CEO Elon Musk Is Calling ESG a 'Scam'
Electric car maker Tesla lost its place this month on an index dedicated to companies excelling at ESG.
By Eloise Barry
May 25, 2022
Germany to Bring Back Coal Power Plants If Russia Cuts Gas
The government meanwhile is also calling for coal to be phased-out by 2030
By ARNE DELFS/BLOOMBERG
May 24, 2022
Why Ro Khanna Wants to Talk About Gas Prices
Inflation is rankling voters, and the conventional wisdom in Washington is that sky high gas prices are a big liability for Congressional Democrats, who are already expected to lose seats in the fast-approaching midterm elections....
By Justin Worland
May 19, 2022
U.S. Plastic Recycling Rates Are Even Worse Than We Thought
It’s well established that the state of U.S. plastics recycling is dismal. But plastic waste experts, who have long cautioned that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) purported recycling rate was overestimated, now say that the...
By Emily Barone
May 19, 2022
Climate Could Change the Course of Australia's Election
A well-funded push to get climate campaigners elected to parliament is resonating with voters and making the traditional parties worried
By AMY GUNIA / LAUNCESTON, AUSTRALIA
May 19, 2022
Western Architecture is Making India's Heatwaves Worse
In the face of climate change, architects are looking to the past to design more resilient buildings
By Ciara Nugent
May 16, 2022
Americans Don't Trust One of the Best Methods to Control Wildfires
When burns get out of control, it can erode public trust, even as wildfires get worse with climate change
By Emily Barone
May 12, 2022
This Is How We Quit Big Oil
At the end of the first quarter of 2021, as the CEOs of the three biggest U.S. oil and gas companies presented their firms’ earnings, investors fired off a range of questions about how they...
By Justin Worland
May 11, 2022
Oil Companies Posted Huge Profits. Here’s Where The Cash Will Go (Hint: Not Climate)
As consumers grapple with high fuel prices and politicians scramble to knock them down, oil companies are not making any sudden moves. That’s because, after years of low fuel prices, they are now enjoying a...
By Emily Barone
May 11, 2022
How the Melting Arctic Will Both Hurt and Help Alaskans
The Arctic is warming, and for Indigenous communities the consequences could be devastating.
By Aryn Baker/Nome, Alaska
May 11, 2022
After Visiting Both Ends of the Earth, I Realized How Much Trouble We’re In
These remote places have more impact on our lives than almost anything closer to home.
By Aryn Baker
May 11, 2022
India’s Unbearably Hot Schools Show We Must Climate-Proof Education
A heat wave has forced schools in Northern India to close again after two years of disruption by COVID-19
By Ciara Nugent
May 6, 2022
Giant Rodents 'Invaded' a Wealthy Gated Community. What Happened Next is a Lesson for Cities in the Climate Change Era
Gated communities are known for their manicured lawns, swimming pools, and wealthy residents. In Argentina, they’re also known as the home of the world’s largest rodents. On a drizzly afternoon in March 2022, a family...
By Ciara Nugent/Buenos Aires
May 5, 2022
Big Oil Sold the World on a Plastics Recycling Myth. It May Be Too Late to Undo the Damage
Oil companies convinced the world that plastic recycling would work. Now it may be too late to undo the damage
By Alejandro de la Garza
May 5, 2022
India Braced for More Power Outages Amid Blistering Heatwave
A power crisis in India that’s delivering hours-long blackouts, halting manufacturing and triggering protests is set to continue for months
By Rajesh Kumar Singh / Bloomberg
May 5, 2022
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