Climate
Vox’s coverage of climate change, renewable energy, conservation, and other environmental issues
It’s pretty much just as gross as it sounds.
It’s pretty much just as gross as it sounds.
How climate change transforms our reproductive lives, from menstruation to fertility to pregnancy.
It’s time to add one more contingency to your travel plans: a major natural disaster.
To thwart a disease that’s decimating Caribbean coral reefs, scientists are turning to an unlikely drug.
The latest in Climate
Climate change was a huge issue for Democrats in the 2020 election. Voters care less now.
The Gulf’s looming hurricane problem, explained in a simple graph.
Arcane permitting rules are holding back clean energy. Speeding it up could have some big drawbacks.
An island in the south Caribbean has shown a unique resilience to climate change, but now it faces the ultimate test.
And a few things you can do about it.
How one Karuk fire crew leader is decolonizing our relationship to fire.
How does a hurricane that lands in Florida knock out power in Vermont?
Japan’s early-warning system shows a few extra seconds can save scores of lives.
What happens when your favorite athletes can’t take the heat?
The environmental injustice of a $4.6 billion carbon capture project in Louisiana.
Is this much rain normal?
The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.
Animal rights must become a core issue for progressives.
The neglected environmental and health benefits of fighting Big Meat — for humans.
Organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund are laundering Big Meat’s propaganda. At what cost?
Should we help wild animals get to better habitats to survive?
Believing we’re invulnerable to emergencies isn’t going to work.
When vultures died off in India, people died too.
California’s Park Fire displaced thousands of people. What will happen to them?
Nicolás Maduro has presided over Venezuela’s economic decline — while increasing his authoritarian tendencies.
How America’s ever-widening highways are built on a lie.
The fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture bamboozle, explained.
If elected, Trump could slow down Biden’s progress, but the shift to clean energy is unstoppable.
Biden was the best climate president ever. Will she build on that legacy?
Heat records will keep falling. Our guide on why it’s so hot, how to stay cool, and climate solutions.
Well, we sure have made a mess of things.
The city is no stranger to hurricanes and all sorts of extreme weather. So why is it struggling after Beryl?
These days, anyone can follow a tornado, but you’ll want to leave that to the professionals.
Why you’re getting lousy sleep right now — and what to do about it.
The factors fueling the storm’s strength — and the city’s widespread power outages — have been building for months.
Laws require landlords to provide heat. It’s not the same for AC.
University scientists helped build factory farming. Now, some want to protect its “social license to operate.”
Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.
The solution is tall and green and leafy and grows all on its own.
The sunflower sea star is functionally extinct. It could be key to saving our kelp forests.
Let’s settle the heated debate over your AC, once and for all.
Hurricane Beryl and other superstorms would be much more dangerous without these iconic ocean animals.
Introducing “Changing With Our Climate,” a new Vox series explaining Indigenous solutions to extreme weather.
Alaska is warming far faster than most of the world. For Indigenous people on the front lines, adaptation can be surprisingly simple.
The US doesn‘t have federal heat protections. A standard would save lives. As a heat dome suffocates much of the East, it‘s becoming more apparent that we need better standards in the face of climate change.
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