Climate & Energy
Climate feedback loops, the energy transition, and the cascading consequences of a warming world.
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Climate & Energy
The Broken Arithmetic Behind Trump's Environment-vs-Economy Argument
The Trump administration frames environmental rollbacks as economic relief, but the actual math reveals a system of shifted costs, broken feedback loops, and mounting long-term damage.
Climate & Energy
Texas Data Centers Claim Water Efficiency Gains as the State's Supply Crisis Deepens
Texas regulators want real numbers on data center water use, but without mandatory reporting, efficiency claims remain impossible to verify.
Climate & Energy
Marine Heatwaves Are Supercharging Cyclones and Nearly Doubling Their Economic Toll
A new study finds that marine heatwaves nearly double the economic damage from tropical cyclones, exposing a dangerous blind spot in how the world prices climate risk.
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10 Apr 2026
Keystone XL's Zombie Politics Reveal a Broken Energy Planning System
Keystone XL has been approved, cancelled, revived, and cancelled again. The real story is what that cycle costs everyone.
10 Apr 2026
Emperor Penguins Are Now Officially Endangered as Antarctic Ice Collapses
Emperor penguin chicks are drowning as Antarctic sea ice vanishes beneath them, prompting the IUCN to declare the species officially endangered.
9 Apr 2026
America's Hottest March on Record Is a Preview of What El Niño Will Amplify
The continental U.S. just logged its hottest March in 132 years of records, and a brewing super El Niño may be about to turn the dial even higher.
9 Apr 2026
One Man Let Snakes Bite Him 200 Times. His Blood May Rewrite Antivenom Science
Tim Friede let deadly snakes bite him over 200 times. The antibodies in his blood may now reshape how the world treats snakebite, just as climate shifts the risk.
9 Apr 2026
Nebraska's Wildfires Are Reshaping the Economics of Cattle Country
Nearly a million acres have burned in Nebraska this year, and the cascading damage to cattle ranching runs far deeper than the flames themselves.
9 Apr 2026
EPA's Endangerment Finding Repeal Opens a Legal and Climate Policy Abyss
The EPA's repeal of the endangerment finding doesn't just roll back climate rules — it destabilizes the legal foundation of U.S. environmental governance.
9 Apr 2026
California Moves to Ban PFAS Pesticides, and the Ripple Effects Could Reshape U.S. Agriculture
California's bill to ban PFAS pesticides by 2035 could quietly reshape chemical standards for the entire U.S. food supply.
8 Apr 2026
Alabama's New Utility Law Locks In Guaranteed Profits While Customers Foot the Bill
Alabama's new utility law has protesters in the streets and economists raising alarms about what guaranteed profits mean for captive ratepayers.
8 Apr 2026
Trump's USDA Is Quietly Dismantling the Programs That Keep Small Farms Alive
The Trump USDA is quietly cutting conservation and beginning farmer programs, and the damage may not show up in the data for years.
8 Apr 2026
The Man Who Predicted Civilizational Collapse and Then Had to Keep Living
Jem Bendell's collapse paper became one of the most downloaded in academic history. What it did to the people who believed it is the harder story.
