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Vox's coverage of climate change, renewable energy, conservation, and other environmental issues

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The end of coral reefs as we know them

By Benji Jones

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How to prepare for another season of wildfire smoke

By Li Zhou

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Why we’ve been seeing the northern lights so often lately

By Umair Irfan

Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?

By Dylan Matthews

Something weird is happening with tornadoes

By Li Zhou

8 surprising reasons to stop hating cicadas and start worshipping them

By Benji Jones

Who’s the father? For these baby animals, one doesn’t exist.

By Byrd Pinkerton

Why Japan is struggling to kick its coal dependency

By Umair Irfan

North America’s biggest city is running out of water

By Caroline Houck

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Your guide to 2024’s rare cicadapocalypse

By Brian Resnick and Benji Jones

Watch Sir David Attenborough seduce a cicada with the snap of his fingers

By Brian Resnick and Benji Jones

A rare burst of billions of cicadas will rewire our ecosystems for years to come

By Benji Jones

How the world wastes hundreds of billions of meals in a year, in three charts

By Sam Delgado

How rioting farmers unraveled Europe’s ambitious climate plan

By Jan Dutkiewicz

How La Niña will shape heat and hurricanes this year

By Umair Irfan

The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars

By David Zipper

We could be heading into the hottest summer of our lives

By Li Zhou

We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized

By Umair Irfan

Bird flu in cows — and now in milk. How worried should we be?

By Benji Jones and Kenny Torrella

The meat industry’s war on wildlife

By Kenny Torrella

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Climate change is disrupting our sense of home

By Paige Vega

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The unexpected joy of the Squirrel Census

By Keren Landman, MD

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I gave up meat and gained so much more

By Marina Bolotnikova and Christine Mi

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Home Planet

Stories that celebrate life on Earth and deeper ways of connecting with our shared home.

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The indoorsy person’s guide to the great outdoors

By Allie Volpe and Benji Jones

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Our appliances are more efficient than ever. Why doesn’t it feel like it?

By Umair Irfan

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My adult kids found themselves in nature. Will my youngest lose herself in her phone?

By Tracy Ross

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Most people are disgusted by these animals. These New Yorkers are filling their homes with them.

By Benji Jones

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Is the Earth itself a giant living creature?

By Brian Resnick

Many coral reefs are dying. This one is exploding with life.

By Benji Jones

What to do if you’re worried about “forever chemicals” in your drinking water

By Li Zhou

How 2,000 elderly Swiss women won a landmark climate case

By Ellen Ioanes

What the Ohio train derailment teaches us about poisoning public trust

By Benji Jones

The terrifying and awesome power of solar eclipses

By Paige Vega

What to do during an earthquake, for people who rarely experience them

By Umair Irfan

We know where the next big earthquakes will happen — but not when

By Umair Irfan

Why the death of the honeybee was greatly exaggerated

By Bryan Walsh

The solar eclipse is a critical test for the US power grid

By Umair Irfan

Taiwan’s earthquake preparedness saved a lot of lives — and prevented a catastrophe for the global tech economy

By Bryan Walsh

She’s been chasing solar eclipses for three decades. What’s she after?

By Noam Hassenfeld

Are rainforests doomed? Not necessarily.

By Benji Jones

We know how to save these beloved endangered whales. Yet we’re mindlessly killing them.

By Benji Jones

Why fossil fuel producers are oddly optimistic in the climate change era

By Umair Irfan

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