Yes, Lab-Grown Meat Is Vegan
I wish I came to veganism through an epiphany about the right to personhood of animals, or recognition of the environmental harm that animal farming causes. But I didn’t. What…
“Social Change” Essential To Meet Paris Climate Goal: Report
Climate adaptation will also have to be approached from a new angle, said the reportBerlin: Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is currently not plausible, according to a new…
Climate Reparations Won’t Work
In the concrete rubble on Kanokupolu beach, Tonga, leaves have begun forming a cover—green and glossy amid the dull grays of the detritus in the sand. A year after the…
Mass Climate Migration Is Coming
Unprecedented heat, drought, and wildfires caused chaos and misery across the once temperate British Isles this year, as climate change made its impacts felt beyond the mid-latitudes. Across the channel,…
El Niño Is Coming—and the World Isn’t Prepared
In 2023, the relentless increase in global heating will continue, bringing ever more disruptive weather that is the signature calling card of accelerating climate breakdown. According to NASA, 2022 was…
The World Needs Processed Food
The word “processed” has become something of a slur. Say “processed food” and most of us picture unhealthy, cheap junk. Fresh food straight from the garden or the field is…
Midwives Are an Overlooked Climate Solution
What’s keeping midwives from making a larger dent in the fight against climate change? To start with, there are not enough of them. The United Nations reports that there’s a…
The Infinite Cloud Is a Fantasy
Since the turn of the millennium, the tech industry has spent billions to conjure a seductive narrative that the cloud—a term most nontechnical people use to mean everything the internet…
How Humidity Increases Your Risk of Heat Stroke
Photo: aomas (Shutterstock) When it’s a bajillion degrees with high humidity, the heat can feel like a heavy blanket smothering you. As it turns out, the combination of heat and…
After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance
Yet when I talked to other folks who’d put solar on their roofs, most had precisely the same epiphany I’d had: They realized they had way more juice than they…