Climate ChangeNovember 20, 2024
Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda Could Boost China’s Global Power
Trumps retreat from climate agreements and tech funding will help China dominate global clean energy markets
Stories by Alec Luhn
Alec Luhn wrote the feature “Rusting Rivers” in our January 2024 issue. He is an award-winning climate journalist who has reported from a town invaded by polar bears, the only floating nuclear power plant and the coldest inhabited place on Earth.
Climate ChangeNovember 19, 2024
Exotic Powder Pulls Carbon Dioxide from the Air at a Record Rate
A unique crystalline compound soaks up CO2 with great efficiency
Climate ChangeNovember 18, 2024
An Off Day in Brooklyn—And on Uranus
A serious bird flu infection in Canada, a troubling projection of future plastic waste and dispatches from a global climate convention.
Climate ChangeNovember 14, 2024
Melting Glaciers Are Causing Billions of Dollars of Damage
Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and losses to tourism and fishing
Climate ChangeSeptember 12, 2024
Scientists Will Engineer the Ocean to Absorb More Carbon Dioxide
A research consortium plans to revive geoengineering trials of the controversial iron fertilization technique to pull carbon dioxide from the air, despite public backlash
Climate ChangeAugust 20, 2024
Can Pulling Carbon from Thin Air Slow Climate Change?
Tech firms, oil companies and the U.S. government are investing billions of dollars in carbon capture technology to suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Can it save the warming world?
WaterJanuary 1, 2024
Why Are Alaska’s Rivers Turning Orange?
Streams in Alaska are turning orange with iron and sulfuric acid. Scientists are trying to figure out why