The emerging Democratic consensus is that talking about climate policy is a bad bet for winning the election. Then again, Democratic consensus has been wrong before.

At its convention this week, the party largely avoided two crises that are the cause of mass suffering: climate change and Israel’s war in Gaza.

Kamala Harris’s V.P. pick matters more as a political signal than a policymaker.

Civil forfeiture is usually used against people suspected of drug offenses. Instead, we could be using it to make Big Oil pay for its role causing mass death.

The Florida governor has taken his fanatical war on the climate to the next level.

Donald Trump is telling oil and gas executives they can rewrite entire laws if they help him return to the White House.

Environmental and existential threats have changed parenting and fertility itself.

It’s modeled on carbon offsets. It has a lot of the same problems.

The House has overwhelmingly passed a bill empowering the executive branch to strip organizations of their nonprofit status with little due process. The Senate is now considering its own version.

Is it too much to ask growers and construction firms to furnish water and shade on hot days? Apparently so—in Florida and Texas.

Endangered smalltooth sawfish are one of many species that have been seen spinning around and beaching themselves off the Florida Keys.

If Atlantic Ocean currents break down, the Northern Hemisphere could face crop failures. So why isn’t there a plan for that?

The wealthy have different houses, different cars, different lifestyles from the rest of us. These days, they also want to breathe different air.

Optimism seems to be a theme in climate coverage. But what does productive optimism look like?

In the run-up to a presidential election with dire climate implications, can activists afford to demonize Democrats? Can they afford not to?

Wesley and Joesley Batista run a business empire linked to rampant emissions, deforestation, worker abuses, Covid crises, bribery, price-fixing, SEC violations, and tainted meat. It’s almost impressive.

That’s saying something, given that Thunberg reliably seems to bring out the nutty in conservatives.

COP28 embraced linguistic ambiguity for the purpose of petrostate propaganda. But climate advocates can also use that to their advantage.

The UN process for averting planetary collapse is broken. Here are some ideas for fixing it.

The industry insists that meat’s problems can be solved with technical fixes. We’ve seen this before.