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Byline: David Wallace-Wells This month MethaneSAT, an $88 million, 770-pound surveillance satellite conceived by the Environmental Defense Fund and designed at Harvard to precisely track the human sources of methane [...]

This month MethaneSAT, an $88 million, 770-pound surveillance satellite conceived by the Environmental Defense Fund and designed at Harvard to precisely track the human sources of methane being released so [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In America, now, we are living at 'the end of the future,' the historian Steve Fraser wrote this month in Jacobin, surveying the country's political landscape and [...]

It’s been a dizzying week for TikTok. Last Thursday, on a bipartisan basis, the House Energy and Commerce Committee https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/tech/congress-bill-bans-tiktok-america/index.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email a bill that would force the app to be sold [...]

When former Secretary of State John Kerry stepped into a newly created post as America's top climate diplomat in 2021, the reputation of the United States abroad was, in his [...]

Texas is enduring its first ''gigafire,'' just the third in modern American history to burn more than a million acres. The Smokehouse Creek fire began Monday, spread more than 80 [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells War is on the rise everywhere. When the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London published its authoritative Armed Conflict Survey in early December, it counted 183 [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In early February, the deadliest South American wildfires in a century swept through Valparaiso, Chile, killing more than 100 people. It was almost six months to the [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells For a year or two, as first-wave pandemic panic gave way to a more generalized perception of ragged social disorder, it was hard to read or talk [...]

These are not exactly apocalyptic events, but they also aren’t comfortable. Over the last few days, an intense atmospheric river has pummeled Southern California with rain and whipped Northern California [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In 2022, there were 941 reported cases of measles in the World Health Organization's European region. Over just the first 10 months of last year, according to [...]

There’s a lot to say about Ron DeSantis’s remarkable flameout as a presidential candidate, but one thing it shows is that meaningful pandemic backlash has almost entirely failed to materialize [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells It is notoriously tricky to synthesize data from all the world's weather stations into one measure of global warming, but all of the major efforts to do [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In October, the International Energy Agency issued a brief flare of optimism when it suggested that global carbon emissions from fossil fuels may already have peaked. The [...]

On the end-of-year lists, Ozempic keeps taking top honors for achievements in science. But in our new golden age of medicine, one of the most eye-opening breakthroughs has been in [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In 1974, the libertarian political philosopher Robert Nozick famously defended inequality by offering a thought experiment involving Wilt Chamberlain. Imagine you lived in a society, he proposed, [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells It only took 28 years. When Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber banged his gavel on the resolution text of COP28 in Dubai on Wednesday, it marked what has [...]

By now, you’ve probably registered the alarm that pandemic learning loss has produced a “lost generation” of American students. This self-lacerating story has formed the heart of an indictment of [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells ââ 'Why is everyone so grumpy?' my colleagues Peter Coy and Binyamin Appelbaum asked last month, broaching the subject that has preoccupied confused economists and anxious Democrats. [...]

''Why is everyone so grumpy?'' my colleagues Peter Coy and Binyamin Appelbaum asked last month, broaching the subject that has preoccupied confused economists and anxious Democrats. American G.D.P. is booming, [...]

In 2020, many Americans told themselves that all it would take to halt the pandemic was replacing the president and hitting the “science button.” In 2023, it looks like we’re [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells It is, James Hansen says, worse than you think. In a paper published on Thursday and much debated among his colleagues since it was first posted as [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells As of last Monday night in Acapulco, Mexico, no formal hurricane warning had been issued for what would become, barely a day later, the first Category 5 [...]

We’re just beginning to understand the benefits of semaglutides like Ozempic and Wegovy. The effects of semaglutide drugs won’t be just cosmetic Last year https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-year-of-ozempic the year of Ozempic, though [...]

The Israel Defense Forces’ offensive in Gaza is an ominous hint of the military future. The Israel Defense Forces’ offensive in Gaza is an ominous hint of the military future [...]

In Argentina, President Javier Milei’s new fusion of contemporary culture war with throwback libertarianism is entrancing global elites. Will Javier Milei’s brand of market fundamentalism be Argentina’s next big export? [...]

A new satellite will show us the full extent of methane emissions. Will we act? What will we do when we see the climate more clearly? This month MethaneSAT, an [...]

The wave of coups in the African Sahel is an alarming development. The wave of coups in the Sahel is an alarming development War is on the rise https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-10/it-s-not-just-ukraine-and-gaza-war-is-on-the-rise-everywhere?sref=htOHjx5Y. When [...]

Draft preview text here for visibility and workshopping (It will not show up in newsletter) The urban “doom loop” appears to have halted For a year or two, as first-wave [...]