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Climate Change
celebrity real estate
Aug. 28, 2024
Deaths From Extreme Heat Are Just Beginning Each one is a failure, a vulnerability multiplied.
parks and recreation
Aug. 14, 2024
Why Are We Still Making Unshaded Playgrounds? The city’s newest park at Pier 42 is leaving kids scorching in the sun.
Ranking Natural-Disaster Movies by How Much I Don’t Want to Be There In honor of Twisters , let’s talk about some other horrors nature can throw our way.
the national interest
June 7, 2024
What is the Sunrise Movement For? Why a climate group may decline to endorse the most pro-climate president ever.
the housing market
May 15, 2024
When Your Dream Apartment Keeps Flooding To move or not to move, that is the question.
How NASA’s Chief Scientist Manages Climate Anxiety “We understand our planet better than we have before and continue to learn about it every day. So I focus on the hope that science brings.”
extreme weather
Feb. 22, 2024
How Fire Island Was Saved — For Now After another winter of brutal storms, the Feds stepped in with a pile of very expensive sand. But it’s just a Band-Aid.
Does Taylor Swift Really Offset Her Jet’s Carbon Footprint? Her representatives claim she buys “carbon credits” to make up for environmental damage.
New York After Snow Remembering when we could count on storms to bury trash bags and cars, and offer us a few hours of quiet.
Blazed Trails For thru-hikers, climate change is posing new, treacherous risks out in the wild. Not that that’s stopping them.
getting around
Jan. 11, 2024
Kayaking to School in Broad Channel On one block, a night of heavy rains and high tide sometimes means breaking out a boat to get around.
climate change
Dec. 14, 2023
The New Global Climate Deal Is Mostly Hot Air Fixing the climate requires cheap clean energy, not cheap words.
Don’t Let Climate Anxiety Stop You From Having Kids The battle to save the planet shouldn’t be waged over the bodies of women or come at the cost of their personal grief.
royal rumblings
Nov. 7, 2023
King Charles Forced to Deliver Speech He Hates In his first King’s Speech, the environmentalist monarch had to announce policies opposed by climate-change activists without rolling his eyes.
infrastructure watch
Oct. 30, 2023
Walling Up the East Side to Save It Why the floodgates on the waterfront look the way they do.
environment
Sept. 29, 2023
Scenes From a Flooded New York Subway evacuations, school day chaos, a missing mayor, and at least one fugitive sea lion.
climate change
Sept. 27, 2023
us open 2023
Sept. 8, 2023
Maybe They Should Move the U.S. Open Back a Week Extreme heat is an enemy of good tennis, and the problem is only getting worse.
Having a Kid at the End of the World In the face of bleak climate future, is it okay to want a baby in the present?
climate change
Aug. 29, 2023
Let Them Eat Icebergs The secret ingredient to Martha Stewart’s vacation cocktail? Melting glaciers.
climate change
Aug. 28, 2023
What If Wind Turbines Got a Makeover? From Western New York to Ocean City, New Jersey, fights against wind farms often begin with how they look.
just asking questions
Aug. 11, 2023
There Will Be More Mauis Climatologist Nick Bond explains how the combination of high winds and dry grasslands makes for a dangerous wildfire formula, and not just in Hawaii.
Florida Is One Big Hot Tub Last week, water temperatures off the coast reached triple digits.
climate change
July 24, 2023
8 Eye-popping Numbers From the Worldwide Heat Wave Phoenix is still melting as a massive U.S. heat dome shifts eastward.
just asking questions
July 24, 2023
Why the Northeast Will Need to Get Used to Getting Bombed by Rain A talk with Dartmouth College’s Jonathan Winter about how to prepare for more regular floods from above.
climate change
July 15, 2023
Can Extremely Reflective White Paint Save the Planet? Probably not, but geoengineering in some form is going to be necessary to address climate change.
climate change
July 13, 2023
A New Order Blocking Manchin’s Pipeline Could Hurt the Climate Restricting Congress’s authority to exempt energy projects from judicial review would undermine the green transition.
just asking questions
July 11, 2023
How Much Hotter Can It Get in the Near Future? Science writer Jeff Goodell on how unprepared humanity is for record-breaking temperatures.
environment
June 30, 2023
It’s Aphids Those bugs swarming the city are native New Yorkers.
the national interest
June 25, 2023
Community Input Is Not Always What Democracy Looks Like Climate activists are entitled to protest but not entitled to win.
odor events
June 12, 2023
Meanwhile, in Texas, Fresh Signs of Impending Apocalypse In our latest environmental plague, tens of thousands of dead fish washed up along the Gulf Coast this weekend.
smokepocalypse
June 10, 2023
smokepocalypse
June 8, 2023
What Wildfire Smoke Does to the Human Body The Air Quality Index in New York hit a staggering 352, the worst in the world.
smokepocalypse
June 8, 2023
The East Coast Is Choking On the Hidden Costs of Climate Change Many calculations of climate change’s economic costs have failed to account for the impacts of wildfires.
canada wildfires
June 6, 2023
Talking to an Air-Quality Expert About That Haze Should you go outside? Wear a mask? Let us explain.
No Water? No Subdivision. The end of Arizona’s desert sprawl may be near. It’s a good first step.
California Is Becoming Uninsurable State Farm has put a moratorium on new home-insurance customers in the state. It’s a sign of what’s to come.
mass transit
May 15, 2023
America’s Trains and Buses Are Speeding Toward a Cliff As COVID-relief funds dwindle and ridership remains low, mass-transit systems are poised for financial crisis.
apocalypse wow
May 9, 2023
New Jersey Is Burning Wildfire season is starting earlier and not just on the West Coast.
Extrapolations ’ Good Intentions Aren’t Good EnoughOnly once does the Apple TV+ series allow for the idea that in a climate emergency, there can be virtue in breaking the rules.
early and often
Apr. 22, 2023
On the First Earth Day, Environmentalism Wasn’t Partisan Over the past 53 years, Republicans have turned protecting the environment into a culture-war issue. It didn’t have to be this way.
getting around
Apr. 20, 2023
L.A. Cops Have a Helicopter Problem The city’s aerial law-enforcement fleet is more wasteful, and just as pointless, as Kylie Jenner’s and Elon Musk’s private-jet habits.
the national interest
Mar. 29, 2023
leaving no trace
Feb. 7, 2023
The Big MOOP at Burning Man A geothermal-energy project has the organization behind the eight-day rave facing off against the Bureau of Land Management.
Our Long Local Snowmare Is Over New York City finally saw some flakes stick to the ground on Wednesday morning. Better late than never.
talking about the weather
Jan. 29, 2023
This Is a Snow Lover’s Nightmare New York has broken a snowless record — and there’s no end in sight to this gray misery.
getting around
Jan. 25, 2023
An EV in Every Driveway Is an Environmental Disaster We can’t lithium mine our way out of climate crisis.
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