Wonking Out: Why Growth Can Be Green
Heads up: I did a podcast with Ezra Klein earlier this week, mostly focused on inflation — which continues to be an interesting story, throwing curveballs at all who imagine they have it figured out. But for today’s newsletter I…
In New Mexico, Trying to Capitalize on Natural Beauty as Climate Change Disrupts It
The Hermit’s Peak and Calf Canyon fires started in April, after the U.S. Forest Service conducted what was supposed to have been a controlled burn to thin the dense undergrowth. High winds whipped both fires into a megacomplex that ultimately…
UK Approves New Coal Mine, Despite Climate Concerns
The British government approved on Wednesday the country’s first coal mine in decades, a project promoted as a source of new jobs but which has been criticized as a reversal of efforts to control climate change. The mine, near Whitehaven…
Can the Rhine River Be Saved From Climate Change?
KARLSRUHE, Germany — It is one of the tightest and fastest bends in the Rhine River, a nearly 90-degree curve where a small rocky island dotted by trees further narrows the shipping channel. Engineers, surveyors and craftspeople have spent months…
What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay
Something of Uruguay’s character can be read as you descend toward it. One of the smallest and least densely populated countries on Earth, it is composed almost entirely of a single sweep of grasslands, which unfolds gently and is practically…
Bill Gates: ‘Estamos en una peor situación de lo que esperaba’
Estamos en los niveles de vacunación de 2009. Sin embargo, con la debida financiación en los dos próximos años, podríamos volver a donde estábamos antes de la pandemia. De modo que sigo siendo optimista respecto a estas tendencias generales, por…
The Barbados Rebellion: An Island Nation’s Fight for Climate Justice
Caribbean nations are trapped between the global financial system and a looming climate disaster. One country’s leaders have been fighting to find a way out. The Barbados Rebellion By Abrahm Lustgarten Photographs by Erika Larsen Late on May 31, 2018,…
Pakistan’s Deadly Flood Season Worsened by Climate Change and Bad Infrastructure
KARACHI, Pakistan — Year after year in Kausar Niazi Colony, a slum in the port city of Karachi, Murtaza Hussain and his neighbors watched as monsoon rains flooded into their homes, damaging furniture, televisions and other precious valuables. So when…
Biden Concedes Defeat on Climate Bill as Manchin and Inflation Upend Agenda
WASHINGTON — President Biden bowed to political reality on Friday, conceding that he had been unable to persuade a holdout coal-state Democrat, or any Republicans in the Senate, to back legislation that had been his greatest hope to confront the…
Your Wednesday Briefing: Extreme Heat Grips China
Good morning. We’re covering a dangerous heat wave in China, the sentencing of a longtime activist in Hong Kong and President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to Iran. Extreme heat grips China Parts of China’s east and south withered under extreme…
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