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Last summer, I wrote a short story entitled Rat Island, set in a post-pandemic United States. In it, the rule of law and social order have broken down, with mobs roaming the streets of Los Angeles. A wealthy group of people stand on top of a skyscraper, waiting for the helicopter that will whisk them…

Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell hosts a series of debates on climate solutions. For this installment, he speaks with writer and activist Julian Brave NoiseCat and Professor Arvind Ravikumar about how to wean the U.S. off of natural gas

The conservative environmentalist Benji Backer wants to change how the climate movement has long been synonymous with the liberal movement. The president and founder of the American Conservation Coalition, a non-profit organization working to mobilize young conservatives around environmental action, Backer is working to engage members of the Republican Party on climate change. “Climate change…

Rolling Stone's Jeff Goodell hosts a series of debates on climate solutions. For this installment, he speaks with Columbia University scholar Julio Friedmann and Elizabeth Yeampierre about carbon removal

Rolling Stone's Jeff Goodell hosts a series of debates on climate solutions. For this installment, he speaks with Harvard's David Keith and author Alex Steffen about geoengineering

Universities are incorporating climate education into their curriculum to prepare students for future work in a world of climate breakdown

We heard about the storm a week before the rains. Manny figured they wouldn’t be a problem. Jae disagreed. The news called it a minor inconvenience—a flash flood at most—but we’d learned not to lean too deep into forecasts. In the morning, Houston felt sticky. Our heels slapped across the floorboards. We plodded around the…

A copper mine threatens the iconic Smith River. It will bring jobs and the copper needed for a renewable-energy future, but is it worth the risk to one of the last pristine waterways?

Climate change is affecting every facet of our society, and its impacts will only become more dire. In 2020, there were 22 different billion-dollar climate disasters in the United States totaling $95 billion in damages. Costs associated with unabated climate change are projected to increase an estimated $257 billion annually for every 1 degree of…

When I was 8 years old, I wrote a letter asking President Nixon to do what he could to protect our planet. I didn’t know I’d one day go on to lead the agency he founded, the Environmental Protection Agency, or build on that work at Apple. But I saw the impact pollution was having…

To illustrate the dramatic effects of climate change on our interconnected world for the April 26 issue of TIME, we turned the cover canvas over to “an artist who paints without a paintbrush.” Malaysian artist Red Hong Yi spent two weeks creating an image that is part sculpture, part performance art. She and her six-person…

Washington's climate envoy becomes the first senior Biden administration official to visit China—but he does so at a time of high tension