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Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Have Come to the U.S. Will They Work?
They're intended as a population control tool, but some locals in the Florida Keys are furious over the project
Amtrak’s Boss Has a Plan to Make You Love Trains Again. Will it Work?
Forget high speed rail—but other ideas are in the works
We Need More Data in the Fight Against Cancer. Here’s a Plan to Help Us Get There
For the first time in over a year, we are starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel from the devastation caused by COVID-19. While much work remains to end and avoid a resurgence of the pandemic, public and private investments in scientific research will get us to a new normal. The…
Asia’s Economies Are Set to Rebound From COVID-19 Faster Than the U.S. or Europe—If They Can Step Up Vaccine Rollouts
But, economic success could be thwarted by the region's sluggish vaccine rollout and deadly new waves of COVID-19
The Free Market is Dead: What Will Replace It?
Big meetings in the Oval Office in the time of Covid-19 are rare, but two weeks into his presidency, President Joe Biden decided to make an exception. It was only a few days after the nation’s coronavirus case count peaked in late January, and Biden sat on a stately beige chair, double masked and flanked…
Environmental Crises Are Forcing Millions Into Cities. Can Countries Turn Climate Migrants Into an Asset?
When he was a child, James Owuor loved hearing the elders talk about the way life used to be. So it comes as something of a surprise that at 38, he is now the one tasked with the job of describing the Before Times in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Before Lake Baringo started to rise, before…
The Urgent Need to Change the Language We Use to Talk About the Climate Crisis
Forty years ago, as I was leaving my friend’s house to throw a baseball outside, his father stopped us for inspection. “Where are you going?” Peter’s father asked. “When will you be back?” And most pointedly: “Have you done your homework?” Peter had, but I had not. “I’ll get around to it,” I said. “Ah,…
Judith Butler: Creating an Inhabitable World for Humans Means Dismantling Rigid Forms of Individuality
However differently we register this pandemic we understand it as global; it brings home the fact that we are implicated in a shared world. The capacity of living human creatures to affect one another can be a matter of life or death. Because so many resources are not equitably shared, and so many have only…
After a Terrible Year for Women in the Economy, These Places Are Working Toward a Feminist Recovery From COVID-19
“Without all the work that women did this year, there’d be no economy to rebuild.”
These Women Are Transforming What Climate Leadership Looks Like. Here’s What They Learned From the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, like the climate crisis, is amplifying existing racial and gender injustices in our society. TIME editors Naina Bajekal and Elijah Wolfson moderated a conversation with two women working to create a more inclusive climate leadership space: American author, strategist and teacher Katharine Wilkinson, who co-founded and leads The All We Can Save…
The Case for Abandoning ‘Corporate Responsibility’ When We Judge Company Practices
In an earlier era, green referred to grass and trees and jealous eyes. But over the past half-century, green has taken on a life of its own. The Green movement deals with the collisions and contagions of the contemporary world—how to view them, and how to cure them. The book from which this essay is…
The Climate Real Estate Bubble: Is the U.S. on the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?
1171 Shoreham looks much like it did when Anna Zimmerman lived there: modest but presentable. A good starter home for Zimmerman and her husband when they bought it in 2005, for a while it provided an idyllic existence in suburban Charleston, S.C., a community of friendly neighbors for their young child, a quaint backyard and even…