The world is adapting to extreme heat — but not nearly fast enough

This summer was more than uncomfortably hot — it was record-breaking, with many countries reporting their highest average temperatures yet. Western Europe, for example, sweated through five grueling heat waves this year that sucked moisture from the soil, turned vegetation into wildfire fuel, and shrank rivers until the fish ran out of water.

This State Is Spending More on Lethal Injections. A Law Tries to Keep the Details Secret.

As Georgia plans for its first execution in two years, a trove of records provides us with new information — and raises new questions — about the state’s lethal injection process.

Money does grow instead of trees

Brazil is a global testing ground for green finance, regenerative agriculture and forest restoration. The concentration of influence deserves attention.

Tesla Outlasted the World’s Strongest Union Movement

After 1,027 days, severance deals with confidentiality clauses emptied the picket line at Sweden’s Tesla workshops.

California Rewrites the Welfare State While Europe Looks Away

Trump and Sanders now converge on sovereign funds holding corporate shares, scrambling familiar ideological lines.

America is losing its war against wildfire

Wildland firefighting is increasingly facing an intractable reality: We’re stuck in a vicious cycle. A doom loop.

Why it’s so hard to predict a tragedy like Nepal’s glacier collapse

Melting glaciers spell disaster around the world. Protecting people will be a challenge for decades to come.

Right-Wing Speech Crackdowns Turned Charlie Kirk Into a Meme

By elevating Charlie Kirk to a martyr, the right made his ridicule a logical reaction to their repression.