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High Gas Prices Are Discouraging Americans From Buying Cars Right Now
By Kyla Mandel
Fact-Checking Crypto's Climate Claims
By Andrew R. Chow
California Once Pioneered the Way in Renewable Energy. Now It’s Turning To Fossil Fuel To Beat a Heatwave
By Kathleen Ronayne / AP
How the Biden Administration Is Responding to the SCOTUS Climate Setback
By Justin Worland
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What the Supreme Court's Ruling on the 'Clean Air Act' Means for Carbon Emissions
Energy emissions fell as the case moved through the courts. That may not be enough for Biden to reach his climate goals
By Emily Barone
June 30, 2022
Follow the Algae Brick Road to Plant-Based Buildings
Cement accounts for around 8% of global CO2 emissions. This company has carbon-negative alternative
By Ciara Nugent
June 30, 2022
The U.S. Senate Might Be About to Kill Biden's Clean Energy Plans
Politicians are playing hardball over worker provisions, with the climate on the line
By Alejandro de la Garza
June 30, 2022
Supreme Court Limits EPA in Curbing Power Plant Emissions
(Washington, D.C.) — In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power...
By Associated Press
June 30, 2022
This Is What a Radical Plastic Ban Looks Like
India is set to implement from July 1 a ban on single-use plastics
By Ismat Ara / New Delhi, India
June 30, 2022
Meet the Siblings Making Hydropower That Actually Protects Rivers and Fish
“Every hydro project is also a water project, not just an energy project”
By Amy Gunia
June 29, 2022
The Billionaire Space Race Has Big Climate Costs
Rocket exhaust is no friend of the atmosphere
By Jeffrey Kluger
June 28, 2022
G-7 Launches Climate Club to Try and Avoid Green Trade Wars
The Climate Club hopes to accelerate climate action and increase ambition towards meeting the Paris Agreement targets
By MICHAEL NIENABER AND JOHN AINGER/BLOOMBERG
June 28, 2022
How the Universal Language of Music Can Help Us Solve Our Planetary Problem
As the climate changes, it’s not too late to save ourselves. There is cause for both optimism and pessimism—salvation could take the form of easy technological fixes or cataclysmic climate events that force us to...
By Adam Met and Dana R. Fisher
June 24, 2022
Summers Are Becoming Unbearably Hot Before They Even Start
"It’s never been this hot so early in the year"
By Emily Barone
June 23, 2022
How Trees Could Save Karachi, Pakistan from Climate Havoc
On a recent Tuesday morning, several dozen Pakistani schoolchildren barreled down a wooden walkway into a thicket of mangroves. They jostled for space at a small viewing platform and eagerly pointed out fish darting between...
By Aryn Baker/Karachi, Pakistan
June 23, 2022
We're Gonna Need a Greener Boat
Container ships transport just about everything. The world wants more of all of it. So the ships are getting bigger, as are the shipping channels, port complexes, and loading cranes. “All over the world they’re...
By Alejandro de la Garza
June 23, 2022
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
Canada Sets Dates To Ban Some Single-Use Plastics
Canadian companies can no longer import or make plastic bags and Styrofoam takeout containers by the end of this year
By Associated Press
June 20, 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
How Climate Change Affects Kids' Health
A review article shows how dangerous climate-related threats are to children’s well-being
By Tara Law
June 17, 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
The Unsettled—and Unsettling—Science of Lawn Chemicals
Here’s what experts say people should do to keep their grass, and themselves, healthy
By Tik Root
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
John Kerry: 'We Have to Push Back Hard' on Efforts to Build New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure in Response to Rising Gas Prices
John Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate change, warned Tuesday that the war in Ukraine could undermine international progress to cut carbon emissions. “You have this new revisionism suggesting that we have to...
By Alejandro de la Garza
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
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