OCTOBER 29. 2025

Scientists have a dire new warning about the state of the planet

Recent climatic developments "mark the beginning of a grim new chapter for life on Earth, " but it's not too late for radical action.

Why Israel's Jews are divided

Subscribers // by Nitzan Perelman Becker

Sovereignty for sale

Subscribers // by Evgeny Morozov

Takeover by Big Tech

Subscribers // by Francesca Bria

Give him a prize!

Open access // by Benoît Bréville

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from Oklahoma oil wells.

Hurricane Melissa adds urgency to COP30

Hurricane Melissa shows need for climate action at Cop30 summit, Cabinet hears.

Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it.

Climate Central revived the federal list of billion-dollar disasters, another example of nonprofits providing data the government deletes.

OCTOBER 28. 2025

The West’s new gold rush is the data center boom

The tech industry’s soaring electricity and water demands are raising consumer rates and threatening sustainability goals.

'Ideas for navigating a stormy future'

Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C is released 10 years after the landmark Paris climate agreement.

In New York, a pipeline proposal that just won’t die

Why some think a “lurid political shakedown” by President Trump will get a pipeline built off Rockaway Beach.

What we lost when cars won

Americans once feared cars. Now we can’t imagine life without them.

Climate storms threatens 'vicious cycle'

Climate impacts will 'get in the way of action to tackle the underlying problem'.