Doomsday Is Here, So Where’s My Hoverboard?

Marty McFly’s future expired years ago. A 1960 equation says the world ends today, November 13, 2026. Both missed in the same, very…

COP31: Everything You Need To Know — Live

A live doc. of COP31 reporting, updated daily, by the Editor of The New Climate

A Hunter’s Report Card: The Ducks That Die Sitting on Still Water

Fat breasts, clear eyes, strong necks. One bird tells you what the water has been doing all summer.

The Dirtiest AI Shortcut is a Bridge That Never Reaches the Other Side

AI data centres are skipping the grid queue with super-emitting ‘temporary’ gas turbines that are here to stay

Nazi Uranium? Hitler’s Reactor Was Never Close

The fastest runner in the atomic race was stuffed and one of them is rusting outside my window

Every Wild Bird on Earth Lives Downwind of a Chicken Coop

Seven in ten birds alive are farmed poultry. And even Antarctica is finding out what that means.

Nothing Electrifies a Country Like a Closed Border

Türkiye is hosting COP31’s pledge to electrify the planet while paying its own coal plants above market. A fuel cutoff shows what actually…

How to Build a Lake With Magic

A boyhood lake in Wisconsin broke the rule that clear water means bad fishing. Forty years later, I learned what was really happening under…

Cook on Top, Suffocate Below: The Trout Lake I Built to Kill Them

I stocked the most beautiful trout in Montana into my new lake. It took three summers to learn what the lake had been trying to tell me.

Why Are So Many MAGA Women Blonde?

And the intense gender affirmation doesn’t stop at hair color

52 Simple Questions To Trigger Deep (and Funny) Conversations

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The Greenest Thing You Can Do With a Plastic Bag Is Bury It

For almost forty years, the arrows printed on it have pointed everyone at the wrong question.

China’s Water Bomb Has Exploded in Nepal — and the World Is Silent

Climate change broke the mountain, but China’s upstream secrecy and the world’s silence turned disaster into catastrophe.

Overshoot Is Not Surrender (Just a Promise to Clean Up Later)

Returning to the same temperature doesn’t mean returning to the same world

What If We Say “F*ck the AMOC”?

The Atlantic’s collapse date keeps moving. The speed we’re heating it doesn’t.

The Smallest Number Warming the Planet

Methane is scarce in the atmosphere, but its heating power, and how quickly it fades, make it one of our best chances to slow global…

The Week I Turned Friendship Into a Test

My Quiet Phone Told an Ugly Half-Truth

Ducks Are Made of Mud

Waterfowlers built one of Earth’s great conservation stories by looking up. The warming prairie potholes now ask them to look down.

How Fishing Can Be The Top Link of a Methane-Control System

The more we harvest, the more we can fight algal blooms