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In January of 1938, Time’s editors considered how the sun might become a future energy source. A year later, TIME observed that scientists were seeing evidence of a warming planet. In 1953, TIME cautioned that an “invisible blanket” of greenhouse gas

The main road in the Icelandic seaside town of Grindavik lies cracked open on Nov. 13, as thousands of earthquakes shook the country’s southwest because of magma shifting under the earth’s crust. Officials had evacuated the town’s roughly 4,000 resid

Nikki Haley had heard worse than the snipes from one of the three men standing to her left onstage. As a candidate for governor of South Carolina in 2010, she was attacked with anti-Indian-American slurs. Three years later, the state Democratic Party

With a war raging between Israel and Hamas, it’s hard to imagine a new dawn of peace. The violence threatens to paralyze the moral and political imaginations of Israelis and Palestinians alike, deepening the impression that accommodation will remain

It took one year for Sam Bankman-Fried to transform from beloved billionaire entrepreneur to convicted felon. On Nov. 2, a New York jury found Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts he was charged with by the Department of Justice, including defrau

There’s a common malfunction that occurs when well-intentioned people open their mouths to say no: the word yes tumbles out instead. We’ve all been there, says Vanessa Bohns, department chair and professor of organizational behavior at Cornell Univer

More than once when William Lai was a small boy, a passing typhoon tore the roof of his home clean away. It’s a recollection that brings a wry smile to Taiwan’s Vice President, who grew up in the small coal-mining hamlet of Wanli perched on the islan

Flames encircle a mountainside above nearby homes as the McDougall Creek wildfire roared in West Kelowna, British Columbia, on Aug. 18. Extreme weather conditions fueled Canada’s worst wildfire season on record, with thousands of fires devastating mi

When Thomas Hobbes described life in a state of nature as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,” he penned one of the most celebrated sentences in the English language. The 17th century philosopher asserted that without “a common power to keep t

Have you ever felt numb, overwhelmed, or excessively agitated after seeing the torrent of suffering shown on the news, internet, and social media? I know I have—and I recently learned that this feeling has a name: compassion fatigue. For decades, res

Things are looking up for Vladimir Putin. Ukraine’s much-vaunted counteroffensive has made little progress, heightening fears in the West that U.S. and European taxpayers are bankrolling an increasingly costly stalemate. Russian counterattacks have a

You might be hard-pressed to find anyone who actually likes their power company; rates just keep going up even as many utilities drag their feet on allowing renewable-energy projects to connect to the grid. There’s a reason for that: utilities are am

Seven years out from needing to use food stamps, and it’s interesting what still triggers that feeling of humiliation that consumed my life back then. Yet I always feel it when I use a self-checkout station at the grocery store. As a college student

For a taste of the United Arab Emirates, try the cappuccino at Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace hotel. At around $25, it’s a quality cup of coffee, but the gold flakes that come sprinkled on top are its primary selling point. Every turn in the Palace, one

In 2023, China Hongqiao Group, one of the largest aluminum producers in the world, shut down 1.5 million tons of smelting capacity and moved it across the country—unplugging from coal electricity and connecting instead to cleaner hydroelectric power.

‘IN THE NEXT YEAR, ACCELERATING THE TRANSFORMATION OF SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES REMAINS CRITICAL TO ADVANCING GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION.’ ‘675 million people live without electricity and, as a result, are poorer and less healthy, productive, and

‘LIKE CIGARETTES, WE SHOULD BAN THE ADVERTISING OF HIGH-CARBON PRODUCTS.’ Gates is the founder of Breakthrough Energy (BE), considered among the most influential early-stage venture-capital funds in the energy and decarbonization space. This August,

‘WE’VE SEEN THAT JOB CREATION AND LOCAL ECONOMIC INVESTMENT ARE REGULARLY A RESULT OF RENEWABLE-ENERGY PROJECTS.’ Zeng is founder, chairman, and general manager of CATL, the global leader in battery design and manufacturing for electric passenger veh

‘WE MUST TRACK CARBON LIKE WE TRACK SUGAR INTAKE. IF EVERY PURCHASE DECISION WE MADE CAME WITH A LABEL, LIKE WE HAVE FOR SUGAR ON FOOD PRODUCTS, WE COULD ALL MAKE INFORMED CHOICES.’ ‘Direct air capture urgently requires more investment and policy sup

‘CLIMATE CHANGE IS A PUBLIC-HEALTH CRISIS. EVERY DOLLAR INVESTED IN PREVENTION, PREPARATION, AND RESILIENCE IS A VITAL STEP TOWARD A HEALTHIER FUTURE.’ French Gates co-leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which at the end of 2022 announced it w

The previous evening’s storm clouds have cleared to bathe Tokyo in crisp sunshine. Tadashi Yanai, Japan’s richest man and the founder of $73 billion apparel empire Uniqlo, is perusing the art books that line his wood-paneled office, which, like most

The mid-20th century wife is such a vivid type in popular art that we think we’ve got her down cold; in our minds, she’s usually a June Cleaver cliché. But in real life the midcentury wife faced daunting expectations. She may have worked outside the

The first player viewers meet in Squid Game: The Challenge, a new reality competition based on the South Korean Netflix thriller that became an international phenomenon, is a relatable everywoman named Starla. “Who’s not in debt?” she asks, by way of

When you think of your childhood, is there anything that would help us imagine the life of an Iranian family? In Iran, family relationships are not only strong among close relatives but also with the extended family members. My mother’s family was po

Minnesota homemaker Dot Lyon (Juno Temple) has a nice, quiet life. Her husband (David Rysdahl) worships her. Their preteen daughter (Sienna King) is Dot’s whole world. The only apparent obstacle to her happiness is a haughty mother-in-law (Jennifer J