In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.

The Ezra Klein Show · Episode

Transmission · Episode

Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans

Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both be...

Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

Extreme weather spiked power demand just as nuclear, gas, and coal plants had to reduce their output. Solar and batteries helped keep people cool.

Hotter summers are wreaking havoc across transportation infrastructure. One solution: Paint everything white.

At the moment California should be accelerating its clean-energy transition, its leaders are surrendering to Big Oil.

We urge governments to tax the super-rich and support fair global tax rules to protect the future of people and the planet.

From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...

The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".

We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

Can the takeover be stopped?

Analysis shows how heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation

Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control.

The White House is working to change electoral rules in its favor. Protectors of democracy must have a counterplan

Scorching summer of 2003 triggered first efforts to deal with the problem but heatwaves still have devastating impact

France is experiencing another day of scorching heat, with most of the population exposed to extreme temperatures.

Volts · Episode

Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026

Removing the worst-case climate future for Earth isn’t failed science, as climate sceptic Donald Trump claims. It’s a sign climate action has made a difference.

Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics

The Iran war was obviously a mistake. Why not say so?

Simon Stiell said burning fossil fuels was driving intense heatwaves as UK and France broke temperature records on consecutive days

The biggest stories from the global power sector in 2025, from India's new path to a possible plateau in fossil generation.

Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It’s no surprise that Operation Roaring Lion (Israel’s name for its campaign) and Operation Epic Fury (as the US...

As the journalist Dom Phillips came to see it, the deforestation of the Amazon was the work of a stupendously profitable...

Talking with Greg Sargent

Some thoughts on plastic, power, and personal responsibility.