Climate
Vox’s coverage of climate change, renewable energy, conservation, and other environmental issues
The Gulf’s looming hurricane problem, explained in a simple graph.
The Gulf’s looming hurricane problem, explained in a simple graph.
How climate change transforms our reproductive lives, from menstruation to fertility to pregnancy.
Arcane permitting rules are holding back clean energy. Speeding it up could have some big drawbacks.
An island in the south Caribbean has shown a unique resilience to climate change, but now it faces the ultimate test.
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How one Karuk fire crew leader is decolonizing our relationship to fire.
How does a hurricane that lands in Florida knock out power in Vermont?
Japan’s early-warning system shows a few extra seconds can save scores of lives.
What happens when your favorite athletes can’t take the heat?
The environmental injustice of a $4.6 billion carbon capture project in Louisiana.
Is this much rain normal?
The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.
Animal rights must become a core issue for progressives.
The neglected environmental and health benefits of fighting Big Meat — for humans.
Organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund are laundering Big Meat’s propaganda. At what cost?
Should we help wild animals get to better habitats to survive?
Believing we’re invulnerable to emergencies isn’t going to work.
When vultures died off in India, people died too.
California’s Park Fire displaced thousands of people. What will happen to them?
Nicolás Maduro has presided over Venezuela’s economic decline — while increasing his authoritarian tendencies.
How America’s ever-widening highways are built on a lie.
The fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture bamboozle, explained.
If elected, Trump could slow down Biden’s progress, but the shift to clean energy is unstoppable.
Biden was the best climate president ever. Will she build on that legacy?
Heat records will keep falling. Our guide on why it’s so hot, how to stay cool, and climate solutions.
Well, we sure have made a mess of things.
The city is no stranger to hurricanes and all sorts of extreme weather. So why is it struggling after Beryl?
These days, anyone can follow a tornado, but you’ll want to leave that to the professionals.
Why you’re getting lousy sleep right now — and what to do about it.
The factors fueling the storm’s strength — and the city’s widespread power outages — have been building for months.
Laws require landlords to provide heat. It’s not the same for AC.
University scientists helped build factory farming. Now, some want to protect its “social license to operate.”
Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.
The solution is tall and green and leafy and grows all on its own.
The sunflower sea star is functionally extinct. It could be key to saving our kelp forests.
Let’s settle the heated debate over your AC, once and for all.
Hurricane Beryl and other superstorms would be much more dangerous without these iconic ocean animals.
Introducing “Changing With Our Climate,” a new Vox series explaining Indigenous solutions to extreme weather.
Alaska is warming far faster than most of the world. For Indigenous people on the front lines, adaptation can be surprisingly simple.
The US doesn‘t have federal heat protections. A standard would save lives. As a heat dome suffocates much of the East, it‘s becoming more apparent that we need better standards in the face of climate change.
Beryl is now the earliest storm to reach Category 5 on record. It’s a terrifying preview of what the season could bring.
For millions of years, these animals have carried life on their backs — literally.
Seasonal depression can hit in warmer months, too. Here’s how to cope.
The catastrophic effects of climate change can happen anywhere. Here’s how to help your kids cope before, during, and after an emergency.
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