What does it mean to leave a better planet for our children?
There is so little fresh surface water on Earth that if you collected it all into a ball, it would barely reach across New York City. Running water is a miracle — but the technology that brings it to us and takes the waste away is actually thousands of years old. The only barrier to staying hydrated today is political will.
Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history
Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life
Why headlines blaming extreme weather on climate change don’t hold up, the peril of catastrophism, and the case that we’re actually safer than ever before
For the first time since the fall of the Roman empire, wilderness is returning to Italy. Are Italians ready?
A new book warns against pushing all the world’s problems into the climate bucket.
50 years ago, America was shocked by gas lines during the Arab oil embargo. The memory still haunts bad energy policy today.
Queasy about lab-grown meat? Too bad — you’ve pretty much been eating it for decades.
Why the end of the human species would be bad, actually