climate

The Fires in Iran Are a Climate Warning

Two women from the Iranian Red Crescent Society talk as a thick plume of smoke from a U.S.-Israeli strike on an oil storage facility late Saturday rises in the sky in Tehran, Sunday. Scientists are concerned about myriad potential health and environmental…

This Professor Turned Her Classroom Into a Climate Innovation Lab — Here’s What the World Can Learn Ahead of COP 30

As diplomats finalize agendas for November’s COP 30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil—a gathering already overshadowed by 2024’s unprecedented 1.5°C temperature breach—I can’t help but think back to the first time I met Dr. Shirley Mo Ching Yeung. It was 2019 at…

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Bob Brooks & Ryan Mackenzie Want Pennsylvania’s Latino Vote. Neither Would Answer to It

In Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District—one of the closest House races in the country—Democrat Bob Brooks sent a radio DJ in his place, while Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie’s office never responded. So Nick Valencia took the questions straight to Allentown’s doorsteps…

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The Grid They Never Touch

The Amazon data center under construction in Gilroy, Calif. Photography by Jason Henry for WSJ. I have taken apart more electronics than I can count. A transistor radio, a Nintendo 64, a Raspberry Pi, a full desktop stripped to the bare board…

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