Climate Change

Why Is Chocolate So Expensive Right Now?

Why Is Chocolate So Expensive Right Now?

Albert Wagner

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just four West African countries are ...

How China Dominated Nuclear Energy

How China Dominated Nuclear Energy

Mickey Vernon

This story is the second installment in a two-part series on nuclear power in Asia. Maani-Ana Yikpotey saw the world ...

The Cause of the LA Fires Might Never Be Known—but AI Is Hunting for Clues

The Cause of the LA Fires Might Never Be Known—but AI Is Hunting for Clues

Albert Wagner

Karen Short, a research ecologist with the Forest Service who contributed to the study and maintains a historical database of ...

What to know about Trump’s first executive actions on climate and environment

What to know about Trump’s first executive actions on climate and environment

Craig Fedirighi

President Trump’s first week in office included a flurry of executive orders with implications for Earth’s climate and environment. While ...

Biden Failed To Protect Ancient Trees

Biden Failed To Protect Ancient Trees

Adesola Mojo

Sporting aviator sunglasses and standing in front of a lectern last month in Manaus, Brazil, in the heart of the ...

Chocolate Has a Sustainability Problem. Science Thinks It’s Found the Answer

Chocolate Has a Sustainability Problem. Science Thinks It’s Found the Answer

Albert Wagner

Elsewhere, Mars is looking to get to the literal root of the problem by improving the resilience of the all-important ...

Returning the Amazon Rainforest to Its True Caretakers

Returning the Amazon Rainforest to Its True Caretakers

Albert Wagner

In 2025, a small, indigenous nation that calls itself the “people of many colors” will go home for the first ...

How to Create a Future of Cheap Energy for All

How to Create a Future of Cheap Energy for All

Albert Wagner

When asked why they chose Tado, he said that customers’ main reason was, “I want to save money. The second ...

COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large

COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large

Albert Wagner

And then, the main dilemma: Who has to take responsibility for what? The so-called global south is pressing for money ...

A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot

A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot

Mickey Vernon

Eric Lander is a Big Science heavyweight. A geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician, he led the International Human Genome Project ...