Climate
Critics at Large
Is Travel Broken?
Global tourism is projected to reach an all-time high this year. How do we square our zeal for exploration with increasingly pressing reasons to stay put?
The New Yorker Interview
John Kerry Thinks We’re at a Critical Moment on Climate Change
As he steps down from office, the first Presidential envoy on the climate says that we have made progress, but we’re not moving fast enough.
Daily Comment
Rishi Sunak’s Self-Serving Climate Retreat
The British Prime Minister has rolled back the country’s policies on reducing emissions. To what end?
Q. & A.
A Case for Climate Optimism, and Pragmatism, from John Podesta
The veteran political operative now has one of the nation’s top climate jobs. He speaks about the Willow oil-drilling project, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Biden White House.
Daily Comment
The U.N. Issues a Final Warning on the Climate—and a Plan
The I.P.C.C. report contains no new data; nevertheless, it manages to alarm in new ways.
Annals of a Warming Planet
Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea, Yet We’re Inching Toward It
The scientists who study solar geoengineering don’t want anyone to try it. But climate inaction is making it more likely.
Daily Comment
The Future of the Amazon, and Maybe the Planet, Depends on Brazil’s President-Elect Lula
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks out about deforestation and the weakness of global institutions before his speech at the COP27 climate summit.
Daily Comment
How Hurricanes Get Their Names
In an age of more intense storms, forecasters explain their aims.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Notes from a Warming World, and a Conversation with Jamie Raskin
Dhruv Khullar reports on the heat wave in India, and Daniel Sherrell puts the enormity of the climate crisis in context. Plus, David Remnick talks January 6th with Congressman Raskin.
The Political Scene
The Congressional-Staffer Rebellion
With climate legislation in peril and time running out, a group of young aides broke from a tradition of deference and staged a sit-in at Chuck Schumer’s office, demanding action.
Daily Comment
If This Isn’t a Climate Emergency, What Is?
President Biden, at a climate event, stopped short of declaring an emergency, casting the day mostly as a reminder of all that has not been done.
Daily Comment
The Supreme Court Tries Overruling Physics
A destructive decision in West Virginia v. E.P.A.
Letter from the Southwest
The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs
A community near Scottsdale, Arizona, is running out of water. Amid the finger-pointing, the real question is: how many developments will be next?
Dispatch
The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States
In California, millions of residents and thousands of farmers depend on the Bay-Delta for fresh water—but they can’t agree on how to protect it.
Shouts & Murmurs
A Breakup Letter from the U.S. Government to Big Oil
I should have left you after the first oil spill.
The Political Scene Podcast
The Biden Presidency, Year One
Evan Osnos, Susan B. Glasser, Jonathan Blitzer, Elizabeth Kolbert, and John Cassidy on the successes and failures of the no-longer-new Administration.
Annals of a Warming Planet
The Millions of Tons of Carbon Emissions That Don’t Officially Exist
How a blind spot in the Kyoto Protocol helped create the biomass industry.
Daily Comment
It’s Climate Week Again, but the Calendar Is Running Out
A slow transition away from carbon will be costlier than a fast one, but each year that we keep spewing carbon is a year in which fossil-fuel companies’ current business models stay intact.
Daily Comment
In the Northeast, Hurricanes Now Look Very Different
That I could have ever found such a visitation of chaos invigorating is amazing to me.
Daily Comment
Hurricane Ida Proves That We Need to Step Up the Political Fight on Climate Change
It’s past time to take the planet’s limits seriously.