Scott Pruitt Knows Exactly What He's Doing
In Trump's world, the EPA chief is not an embarrassing symbol of corruption – he's the purest distillation of the president's anti-environmental ethos.
Jeff Goodell
The Dark Lessons of Cape Town's Drought
South Africa's capital is the first modern city to face a critical drinking water shortage – thanks to climate change, it won't be the last
Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration
Extreme weather due to climate change displaced more than a million people from their homes last year. It could soon reshape the nation
The Ghost of the Deepwater Horizon Returns
Trump's secretary of the interior just unveiled the largest single expansion of offshore drilling activity ever proposed
25 People Shaping the Future
The inventors, entrepreneurs and disrupters who are changing (and maybe saving) the world one brilliant idea at a time
The Climate Report President Trump Thinks You're Too Stupid to Read
The report refines our understanding of key issues that have huge implications for how we live today and in the future
The Climate Apartheid: How Global Warming Affects the Rich and Poor
A trip to Lagos, Nigeria to investigate the social consequences of climate change
Scott Pruitt Can't Stop the Death of Big Coal
Ultimately, there's nothing the EPA chief can do to halt the decline of the coal industry
50th Anniversary Flashback: Reporting the Biggest Environmental Stories
From oil spills and nuclear waste to climate change, covering the environment has long been a crucial part of the magazine's mission
'It Puts America Last': John Kerry on Trump Pulling Out of Paris Deal
"He threw away America's leadership," the former secretary of state says of Trump's "extremely damaging" move
Hurricane Irma: Gov. Rick Scott's Superstorm
Florida's governor is the perfect example of how U.S. leaders fail to meet the challenge of our lifetime
Hurricane Irma, Rising Seas and Our Endangered Cities
Why the back-to-back blows of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have certainly woken people up to the risks of climate change
Houston: A Global Warning
The devastation of Hurricane Harvey marks a turning point and raises the terrible possibility that we've entered the age of climate chaos
Revenge of the Climate Scientists
Leaked report highlights facts about climate change that all the more critical in the Trump era
How Scott Pruitt Is Gutting the EPA on Behalf of the Fossil-Fuel Industry
Trump's EPA chief is gutting the agency, defunding science and serving the fossil-fuel industry