Four major indicators moved in a favorable direction this year. Each arrived with a documented explanation from the agency that produced it. Almost none of them led a newscast. Intro The Atlantic hurricane season passed its climatological peak this month without producing a single hurricane. Five tropical storms have formed Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly and...
A study published this summer in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters found that Europe’s summers have warmed faster than comparable regions of the Northern Hemisphere in large part because the continent cleaned up its air. Within days, the finding had been rewritten in the British press as evidence that heatwaves are “caused by fall...
The geographic center of U.S. tornado activity is no longer fixed over the open Plains. Peer-reviewed research has documented a sustained eastward migration of tornado frequency and intensity over the past several decades, moving the zone of greatest risk toward the densely populated, heavily forested states of the Deep South. That shift carries two intertwined...
The Uncomfortable Truth About Genocide: Why We Only Remember Some Mass Atrocities We all know about the Holocaust. It’s taught in schools, memorialized in museums, and referenced constantly in our cultural conversations. But ask the average American about the Rwandan genocide, the Armenian genocide, or the mass killings in Bangladesh, and you’ll get blank stares...
If you’ve ever filled up your gas tank in Buffalo during a January blizzard or stood outside a Manhattan gas station during a nor’easter, you’ve probably wondered: Why can’t I just clip this handle and wait in my car like normal people in normal states? The answer is frustrating, antiquated, and quintessentially New York: because...
The Hidden Cost of Your Cloud: How Data Centers Are Draining America’s Resources By Dominick Bianco, Editor-in-Chief You probably don’t think much about where your emails live, or how Netflix streams your favorite shows, or what happens when you ask ChatGPT a question. The answer exists “in the cloud” – a term that sounds ethereal,...
Look, I care about the planet. You care about the planet. We all want to leave something livable for our kids. But somewhere along the way, the environmental movement put all its eggs in one basket—and it might be the wrong basket. We’ve spent the last twenty years obsessed with carbon emissions and global warming....
Walk down any grocery store aisle and you’ll see bottles of canola oil everywhere. It’s cheap, it’s marketed as heart-healthy, and chances are it’s sitting in your pantry right now. But lately, there’s been growing controversy about whether this ubiquitous cooking oil is actually good for us. Let me be clear upfront: this is a...
Here’s something you genuinely can’t make up: Brazil is bulldozing through the Amazon rainforest to build a massive four-lane highway—all to make it easier for people to attend COP30, the global climate summit happening in Belém next year. Yes, you read that right. They’re cutting down the very thing everyone’s supposedly gathering to save. The...
So let me get this straight. I walked into my local pharmacy last week with a splitting headache and congestion that made me feel like my face was about to explode. I grabbed a box of Sudafed, headed to the counter, and was told I needed to show my ID, sign a log, and—oh, by...