Argentina gets rain. Indonesia gets fire. Southern Africa gets hunger. And the fossil fuel industry gets a scapegoat.

The worst outcomes are the hardest to pin down, and we’re betting the planet on them

How voluntary is a permanent concession when it comes after years of threats?

We negotiate in degrees. We bury in millimetres.

Hydropower can hide a methane problem. The best solution starts before the spillway.

Under the cover of a sovereignty broadcast: a British-owned barrel sailing for Texas, a naval base promised to the Pentagon, and a decree that exempts everyone already inside

Some passengers stay where they got off. The quickest way back never needed a machine.

The storm gets the photograph, but the calm days do much of the work

A power station shows up in the stats. A dung cake doesn’t.

And Nepal just found out (again) how fast

Remove the tide. The rest is ours.

The new oil wells don’t pump anything. They answer questions.

I went looking for the climate zealots. They were nowhere near the fire.

The evidence is in your bloodstream. The alibi is everything you call progress.

Now find the killer in the photograph

Nobody ever fell in love with a number

The ones who call it a hoax are also the first in line to buy the exits

The road beneath Roman legionnaires may soon carry afternoon sunlight into the dark

Stationarity is dead

He wants damages for the smoke, but the paperwork keeps returning to his own address

Oil became the thing everyone can be squeezed by. Here’s how to take your own household off the chokepoint.

We could be playing god before we’ve even tried the one fix that actually works

The steady slope of climate change is now a staircase — sudden steps up into conditions the body and infrastucture were never calibrated for

We built fragility into everything, and El Niño will expose them all

Europe was built for a climate that no longer exists

Even inside the Arctic Circle, the idea of heat as someone else’s problem has started to sound ridiculous

We kept it frozen in our heads so we could keep everything else exactly as it was

The US went to war to take it all and bought the Strait back at retail, financing included

A warm ocean meets a world already breaking on four fronts at once — and the next two years are where they collide

Why the worst climate news of the year is a patch of cold water

Nobody can locate the beginning of the circle anymore — and the circle doesn’t particularly want to be located

Seven Eritrean players vanished after a crucial win, and somehow they might be the freest footballers in the world

Fully operational. Contained. Over. Almost. Fine.

A scar outlives the memory of the wound

You can be inside something your entire life and not know it is a wall until the day it stops letting you through

Climate policy worked just enough to retire the worst-case scenario. Now the man who fought it for a decade is claiming the credit.

A system that needs tankers, armies, and emergency stockpiles was never secure

A collapsing ocean current, a coming media narrative, and the part of the story that flips everything upside down

Prophecy, violence, and the performance of salvation

Who begs for immunity when winning?

You cannot mine your way to salvation by draining the waters that make life possible

Watermelons in the sky

This is not another story about AI

Turns out the fastest way to sell solar panels and electric cars is bombing a country for its oil reserves

The man who warned the world about too many people lived long enough to watch the crisis flip

We can all see through your bullshit

Two curves that crossed a decade ago, and only one of them is still falling

The war in Iran didn’t just block a shipping lane. It started dismantling the infrastructure the world runs on.