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One word sums up climate politics in 2025: Greenlash
In a year shaped by Trump's return to the White House, the new administration touted "energy dominance" and protesters threw eggs at "swasticars."
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![Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looking at Donald Tr*mp during a cabinet meeting]()
![Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looking at Donald Tr*mp during a cabinet meeting]()
How Trump’s Big Ag bailout is alienating his MAHA base
The administration’s pro-industry tilt — across three executive agencies — is feeding the MAHA movement’s growing discontent.
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![Illustration of person petting their dog with a large paw print looming behind them]()
![Illustration of person petting their dog with a large paw print looming behind them]()
The climate paradox of having a dog
My dog contributes to climate change. I love him anyway.
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![An aerial view of a vast parking lot filled with rows of black, white, and gray cars, creating a uniform pattern. Among them, a single red car stands out, drawing attention with its bold contrast.]()
![An aerial view of a vast parking lot filled with rows of black, white, and gray cars, creating a uniform pattern. Among them, a single red car stands out, drawing attention with its bold contrast.]()
What we lost when cars won
Americans once feared cars. Now we can’t imagine life without them.
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How disasters change our love lives — for better and for worse
Some couples broke under the pressure of Hurricane Helene. Others found something solid and surprising in each other.
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![Urban planner and public artist Sabina Sethi Unni stars as an humanized flood sensor – a tool that detects high water levels and delivers that data to a publicly-accessible map - in her community play Flood Sensor Aunty.]()
![Urban planner and public artist Sabina Sethi Unni stars as an humanized flood sensor – a tool that detects high water levels and delivers that data to a publicly-accessible map - in her community play Flood Sensor Aunty.]()
An absurdist theater artist prepares New Yorkers for climate disasters
"Sometimes a one-page pamphlet translated into two languages isn’t the best way for people to receive information, but a song about go-bags played on the synth is."
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![Headshots of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton beside the book cover for The Long Heat]()
![Headshots of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton beside the book cover for The Long Heat]()
So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why.
In "The Long Heat," Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.
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Where the Appalachian brook trout vanish, something human goes missing, too
As climate change reshapes the Blue Ridge, Appalachia’s native trout are losing ground — but dedicated anglers and scientists are racing to save them.
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![Collage of worker carrying solar panel, archival material from Sun Day 1978, and view of Capitol building]()
![Collage of worker carrying solar panel, archival material from Sun Day 1978, and view of Capitol building]()
The politics of renewables are getting stranger. ‘Sun Day’ celebrates them anyway.
The national day of action arrives at a time when clean energy is becoming more polarized.
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The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.
We’ll need to do more than "touch grass" to revive them.
