One word sums up climate politics in 2025: Greenlash

The years leading up to 2025 were marked by a rare optimism that the United States would finally do something about climate change. Former president Joe Biden called the crisis an “enormous opportunity, ” and during his term, Congress passed the biggest climate law in the country’s history. It felt like the U. S.

After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up

Iran is looking to relocate the nation’s capital because of severe water shortages that make Tehran unsustainable. Experts say the crisis was caused by years of ill-conceived dam projects and overpumping that destroyed a centuries-old system for tapping underground reserves.

Ford is retreating from EVs — but embracing grid batteries

Amid its $20B EV failure, the storied automaker will retool a Kentucky plant to try and break into the booming energy storage sector.

Here’s the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest

A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk.

Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas

No-bid deals, undisclosed contracts, and millions already spent: Inside the wild story of the Alaska gas pipeline that will not die.

Daniel Soar: Land of Milk and Cheese

The universe has no centre. What Pynchon has mapped is a world that is continuous and connected, where borders, however. ..

Clare Bucknell: At the Museo Byron

What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded? In the early 19th century, for a woman. ..

Ange Mlinko: Scattered Alphabet

Reading the work​ that Susan Howe has produced over the past half century, one marvels at the consistency and depth of. ..