This year is the biggest election year on record. Voters in more than 60 countries—including four of the five most populated—will go to the polls in 2024. And in all… Read more
After performing funeral rites for 40 of his neighbors, Gary Lupe tested positive for COVID-19 in October. Lupe, a 56-year-old minister on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Whiteriver, Ariz.,… Read more
An estimated 2,135 additional people could die every year in the United States as a result of climate change-related injuries like assaults, drownings and falls, if temperatures rise 2°C over… Read more
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Shortly after 1 a.m. on the morning of Dec. 5, 2022, Dave Schlossberg, an experimental physicist at National Ignition Facility (NIF), was woken by a phone call. A fusion experiment… Read more
This winter has brought a cold reminder that SARS-CoV-2 isn’t the only virus we need to think about. After two winters during which influenza was subdued by pandemic precautions, the… Read more
As businesses across the country start imposing strict COVID-19 vaccine and testing requirements, some employees are claiming religious exemptions to avoid getting vaccinated—putting human resources departments on the frontlines of… Read more
Electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular in the U.S., but for many Americans, concerns remain about their range. While you can find a gas station almost anywhere in the country,… Read more
Thirty years after tomatoes became the first genetically modified produce sold in the U.S., lots of people remain skeptical of science-ified foods. In a 2020 Pew Research Center survey, just… Read more
(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) Just as COP28 began two weeks ago, I wrote that one reason U.N. climate… Read more