DECEMBER 25. 2025

Blood Work

A rare genetic mutation is best treated the nineteenth-century way, with bloodletting, showing up the strengths and weaknesses of the NHS.

DECEMBER 23. 2025

What happens when disaster recovery becomes a luxury good

As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.

The country’s largest magnesium supplier shut down. Now what?

Only a few years ago, if you popped open a can of soda anywhere in the United States, the container you held more likely than not contained bits of magnesium harvested from the Great Salt Lake. Now, the country’s supply of the critical mineral looks uncertain.

The Bad River Band is suing to protect its wild rice from an oil pipeline

The lawsuit targets a federal permit for Enbridge’s Line 5, which the tribe says puts wetlands, rivers, and treaty-protected resources at risk.

This Netflix holiday rom-com is secretly an environmentalist fantasy

Don't watch "A Merry Little Ex-Mas" for the romance. Watch it for the sustainability messages, which shine as bright as LED Christmas lights.

Report: Climate is central to truth and reconciliation for the Sámi in Finland

As Finland reckons with its historic mistreatment of the Indigenous Sámi people, climate change complicates the path forward.

DECEMBER 22. 2025

Trump has always hated offshore wind. Now he’s moving to kill it.

The Trump administration has halted 5 already approved offshore wind projects despite rising electricity demand.

What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything.

Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists and Indigenous peoples.

The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition

The Department of Defense is stockpiling cobalt, lithium, and other minerals at the expense of climate action, a new report warns.

Georgia’s hunters take aim at rural hunger

With rural food programs stretched especially thin and climate change driving up prices, meat donations and local initiatives are trying to fill the gap.

DECEMBER 21. 2025

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.

L’Affaire Carlson

On November 5 the president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, convened an uncomfortable meeting. “I made a mistake, and I let you down, ” he told

DECEMBER 20. 2025

A Christmas Story

The Bible is unquestionably the most scrutinized “book” in history. Yet certain obvious facts about it nonetheless escape notice. For example, as Diarmaid

‘Minimum Victory’

On December 1, a group of prominent Ukrainian intellectuals and politicians published a manifesto in Ukrainska Pravda about how the war might end. “It is

What a crumbling power grid means for disabled Americans

Angela Frederick’s new book calls to put disability at the center of disaster planning.

DECEMBER 19. 2025

‘They Killed Our People’

In the spring of 2008, at a small desk piled with papers and notebooks, Lisa Hicks-Gilbert sat spellbound in front of a laptop. After a lifetime of

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.

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.

The breast cancer blind spot

Wes Streeting, the secretary for Health and Social Care, must find funding for research Into invasive lobular breast cancer - to save lives and end an injustice towards women.

DECEMBER 18. 2025

We’re all at risk if Trump dismantles this legendary lab

Breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research would be a "genuinely shocking self-inflicted wound. "