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Runaway climate change once seemed like it could spur violence. Now a different risk has emerged.

Joe Biden's energy balancing act really worked.

Democrats braced for a midterm backlash to the Inflation Reduction Act. It never came.

The world’s much-maligned climate treaty has produced some stunning results.

If the looming GOP majority sabotages climate policy, its own voters will suffer. The party might do it anyway.

Aesthetics matter in politics. But not like … this.

Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID lockdowns have been an unexpected gift to Joe Biden.

The company's new electric pickup truck is an unwieldy mix between an ambulance and a race car.

A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even bigger than Congress thinks.

Hurricane Ian shows some symptoms of global warming. But saying anything beyond that is folly.

Don’t read the new book by the outlet’s co-founders. Experience it. Then buy six copies.

America is in the middle of a mini–golden Age of climate policy.

Power lines are crucial to expanding renewables. America could finally—finally!—be about to build more of them.

You’re not off the hook for your company’s actions.

The state’s record-smashing heat wave is a window into the future … and it’s okay.

The electricity industry knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago. It denied them anyway.

The Inflation Reduction Act could change the world in at least five ways.

The new climate bill isn’t quite “all carrots, no sticks.”

For America to decarbonize, it must reindustrialize.

The Inflation Reduction Act is unmistakably partisan. Can the GOP undo it?

A bipartisan act is quietly about to invest billions in boosting green technology.

Democrats in the Senate passed a bill that would, for the first time ever, use Congress’s power to push the U.S. to decarbonize.

The Senate deal would change the course of the 2020s, finally putting America’s climate goals in sight.

If passed, the energy provisions of the senators’ new bill would represent the most significant climate action in a generation.

A new White House proposal is trying to keep oil prices in the “Goldilocks zone.”

Seven ways of looking at where climate action goes from here

The senator just worsened climate change—and inflation.

At this point, the ideal climate bill is out of the picture. Here are two ways to make sense of Democrats’ next move.

Two big ways carbon pollution is different this year

The agency can still regulate carbon pollution, just not in the most efficient, system-wide ways.

Corporate climate action has become an employee perk

In the next few weeks, Senate Democrats could fall short—for arguably the third time in 30 years—of passing a climate deal. What will that mean for the planet and the country?

The Defense Production Act has become an important tool as the White House’s climate policy has stalled in Congress.

The start-up Running Tide wants to use kelp buoys to fight climate change. The plan might not work, but it’s still a preview of our climate future.

The party doesn’t even seem to realize that it’s blowing a once-in-a-decade chance to pass meaningful climate legislation.

India’s giant heat wave is having ripple effects for the world’s food supply.

The two paths to avoid the worst of climate change would still dramatically change the world as we know it.

A popular idea to soften the blow of global warming might also make the world’s malaria problem even worse.

Companies including Google and Facebook are pouring more than $900 million into a nascent technology that’s essential to zeroing out emissions.

It was once the pinnacle of humanity’s climate ambitions. A new UN-led climate report essentially concedes that it’s out of reach.