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How the most powerful environmental groups help greenwash Big Meat’s climate impact

  2024-08-07 by in Vox

Factory farming is terrible for the environment. Environmentalists are sharply divided over what to do about it.


Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests

  2024-08-07 by in Vox

The modern meat industry is cruel, unsustainable, and unnecessary. Here’s how we fight it.


Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions

  2024-07-29 by in Vox

Oil and gas companies know carbon capture and storage isnt a climate change solution, per documents, whistleblowers and public comments.

  Tagged under: Disinformation and Misinformation | Oil Industry | Carbon Capture and Storage | Climate Change | Shell | Exxon


Biden isn’t advertising America’s record oil boom

  2024-03-13 by in Vox

Biden is not "waging war" on American energy. He’s boosting it.

  Tagged under: Renewable Energy


This chart of ocean temperatures should really scare you

  2024-02-28 by in Vox

The Atlantic Ocean is freakishly warm right now. Scientists are sounding the alarm.

  Tagged under: Coral Reefs | Oceans


This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.

  2023-10-20 by in Vox

Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it.

  Tagged under: Meat Production | Cattle and Dairy Farming


America’s most iconic coral reef is dying. Only one thing will save it.

  2023-09-17 by in Vox

An extreme heat wave has pushed Florida’s reef to the brink — and burned up years worth of progress.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Coral Reefs | Florida


How cars ruin wild animals’ lives

  2023-09-12 by in Vox

If you love nature, consider not driving in it.

  Tagged under: Cars


A frightening virus is killing a massive number of wild birds

  2023-05-09 by in Vox

Scientists have never seen anything like it.


The weird Republican turn against corporate social responsibility

  2022-12-10 by in Vox

Companies say they want to acknowledge environmental impacts. Republicans are mad about that.

  Tagged under: ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance


Climate change has come for the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter

  2022-09-29 by in Vox

China’s catastrophic summer shows its climate adaptation plans still have a long way to go.

  Tagged under: China | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change


The end of natural gas has to start with its name

  2022-02-10 by in Vox

The oil and gas industry didn’t invent the name. But it invented the myth of a clean fuel.

  Tagged under: Methane


Time is running out. Here’s how the climate movement can level up.

  2022-01-10 by in Vox

The high-risk, high-reward stakes of building a more radical movement.

  Tagged under: Activism | Joe Biden | Climate Change | US Politics


The father of environmental justice, on whether we’re all doomed

  2021-12-10 by in Vox

Robert Bullard joined Vox Conversations to discuss the global struggle to keep this world safe to live in, and how racism gets in the way.


There’s a ticking climate time bomb in West Texas

  2021-06-01 by in Vox

Biden faces a critical decision about the Permian Basin and its methane emissions from oil and gas.

  Tagged under: Joe Biden | Methane | Climate Change | Texas


What’s your "fair share" of carbon emissions? You’re probably blowing way past it.

  2021-02-24 by in Vox

How the right to pursue happiness through unlimited consumption harms the planet, and our kids.

  Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change


This popular and proven climate policy should be at the top of Congress’s to-do list

  2021-02-04 by in Vox

The case for a national clean electricity standard.

  Tagged under: Renewable Energy | US Politics | Joe Biden | Climate Change | Electricity


Air pollution is much worse than we thought

  2020-08-12 by David Roberts in Vox

Ditching fossil fuels would pay for itself through clean air alone.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | India


Why rich people use so much more energy

  2020-03-20 by David Roberts in Vox

It’s mainly all the traveling, says a comprehensive new study.

  Tagged under: Climate Change


Social tipping points are the only hope for the climate

  2020-01-29 by David Roberts in Vox

A new paper explores how to trigger them.

  Tagged under: Tipping Points | Climate Change


"Flood the zone with shit": How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy

  2020-01-16 by Sean Illing in Vox

The impeachment trial didn’t change any minds. Here’s why.

  Tagged under: Donald Trump | Disinformation and Misinformation


How should billionaires spend their money to fight climate change? I asked 9 experts.

  2019-11-12 by Sigal Samuel in Vox

Is it better to invest in developing clean energy technologies, say, or in trying to get a Democrat elected president?

  Tagged under: Climate Change


The Paris climate agreement is at risk of falling apart in the 2020s

  2019-11-05 by David Roberts in Vox

It will be a perilous decade for the only international climate treaty going.

  Tagged under: The Paris Agreement


Bernie Sanders’s new bet: a climate change message can win him the Iowa caucuses

  2019-11-04 by in Vox

In the final 100 days before Iowa’s caucuses, Sanders is going all in on a climate change message.

  Tagged under: Climate Change


Greta Thunberg is right: It’s time to haul ass on climate change

  2019-10-04 by David Roberts in Vox

Economically and politically, early ambition is better.

  Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change | Economics


Air travel is a huge contributor to climate change. A new global movement wants you to be ashamed to fly.

  2019-07-25 by in Vox

Greta Thunberg gave up flights to fight climate change. Should you?

  Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change | Air Travel


Elizabeth Warren thinks corruption is why the US hasn’t acted on climate change

  2019-06-22 by in Vox

Here’s how she intends to fight greenhouse gases and money in politics.

  Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | US Politics


More natural gas isn’t a "middle ground" — it’s a climate disaster

  2019-05-30 by David Roberts in Vox

To tackle climate change, natural gas has got to go.

  Tagged under: Climate Change


"I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle."

  2019-05-28 by in Vox

Stop obsessing over your environmental "sins." Fight the oil and gas industry instead.

  Tagged under: Climate Change


David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: "Things are going to get worse"

  2019-04-12 by in Vox

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

  Tagged under: David Attenborough | Wildlife | Predictions


What genuine, no-bullshit ambition on climate change would look like

  2018-05-07 by David Roberts in Vox

New scenarios show how to hit the most stringent Paris targets.

  Tagged under: Climate Change


"I’m an environmental journalist, but I never write about overpopulation. Here’s why."

  2017-09-26 by David Roberts in Vox

Since you asked (many times).


All the risks of climate change, in a single graph

  2017-01-09 by in Vox

There are a lot of them.


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