Climate
Vox’s coverage of climate change, renewable energy, conservation, and other environmental issues
![What do you do if The Really Big One strikes on your vacation?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2136599218.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.024402147388969%2C100%2C99.951195705222&w=2400)
It’s time to add one more contingency to your travel plans: a major natural disaster.
![What do you do if The Really Big One strikes on your vacation?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2136599218.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.024402147388969%2C100%2C99.951195705222&w=2400)
It’s time to add one more contingency to your travel plans: a major natural disaster.
![Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/fertilitypackage-header-1920-1280.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/fertilitypackage-header-1920-1280.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
How climate change transforms our reproductive lives, from menstruation to fertility to pregnancy.
![These beloved sea creatures are dying. Can human medicine save them?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/adler_final-0447.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.65%2C0%2C66.7%2C100&w=2400)
![These beloved sea creatures are dying. Can human medicine save them?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/adler_final-0447.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.02498750624688%2C100%2C99.950024987506&w=2400)
To thwart a disease that’s decimating Caribbean coral reefs, scientists are turning to an unlikely drug.
![Why Democrats aren’t talking much about one of their biggest issues](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1313836905.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669638081654%2C0%2C66.660723836691%2C100&w=2400)
![Why Democrats aren’t talking much about one of their biggest issues](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1313836905.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0044571224817247%2C0%2C99.991085755037%2C100&w=2400)
Climate change was a huge issue for Democrats in the 2020 election. Voters care less now.
The latest in Climate
![This chart of ocean heat is terrifying](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1632090192.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.652307692308%2C0%2C66.695384615385%2C100&w=2400)
![This chart of ocean heat is terrifying](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1632090192.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.021529187426957%2C100%2C99.956941625146&w=2400)
The Gulf’s looming hurricane problem, explained in a simple graph.
![Biden’s historic climate record has one big problem](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1755228079.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Biden’s historic climate record has one big problem](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1755228079.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Arcane permitting rules are holding back clean energy. Speeding it up could have some big drawbacks.
![This coral reef has given scientists hope for years. Now they’re worried.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/adler_final-7290.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.65%2C0%2C66.7%2C100&w=2400)
An island in the south Caribbean has shown a unique resilience to climate change, but now it faces the ultimate test.
![The hidden reason why your power bill is so high](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1213009686.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The hidden reason why your power bill is so high](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1213009686.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
And a few things you can do about it.
![We’re in a deadly cycle of mega fires. The way out is to burn more.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Vox_Fires2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=5.0401041666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
How one Karuk fire crew leader is decolonizing our relationship to fire.
![Even landlocked states aren’t safe from hurricanes](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Vermont-Hurrican-Impact.webp?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.829533116178%2C0%2C66.340933767644%2C100&w=2400)
![Even landlocked states aren’t safe from hurricanes](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Vermont-Hurrican-Impact.webp?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.2442996742671%2C0%2C99.511400651466%2C100&w=2400)
How does a hurricane that lands in Florida knock out power in Vermont?
![Earthquakes are among our deadliest disasters. Scientists are racing to get ahead of them.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25332741/GettyImages_2031349416.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.67%2C0%2C66.66%2C100&w=2400)
![Earthquakes are among our deadliest disasters. Scientists are racing to get ahead of them.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25332741/GettyImages_2031349416.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0050000000000026%2C0%2C99.99%2C100&w=2400)
Japan’s early-warning system shows a few extra seconds can save scores of lives.
![The Summer Olympics can’t keep up with rising temperatures](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2163897773.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.69921875%2C0%2C66.6015625%2C100&w=2400)
![The Summer Olympics can’t keep up with rising temperatures](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2163897773.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.048828125%2C0%2C99.90234375%2C100&w=2400)
What happens when your favorite athletes can’t take the heat?
![What happens when a so-called climate solution risks your community’s safety?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/ALR7991.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
The environmental injustice of a $4.6 billion carbon capture project in Louisiana.
![The slow, wet, meandering destruction of Tropical Storm Debby](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2165120418.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.67%2C0%2C66.66%2C100&w=2400)
![The slow, wet, meandering destruction of Tropical Storm Debby](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2165120418.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0050000000000026%2C0%2C99.99%2C100&w=2400)
Is this much rain normal?
![Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_VoxFinal_Marina.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
The long, maddening, glorious, vital fight against factory farming.
![If the left is serious about saving democracy, there’s one more cause to add to the list](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_Taylor.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Animal rights must become a core issue for progressives.
![Ditching factory farming can help prevent another pandemic](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MarkHarris_Vox_AnimalWelfare.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
The neglected environmental and health benefits of fighting Big Meat — for humans.
![How the most powerful environmental groups help greenwash Big Meat’s climate impact](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ClimateMovementCivilWarOverMeat.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund are laundering Big Meat’s propaganda. At what cost?
![Colorado wants to bring back the wolverine. There’s just one problem.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/VOX_Wolverine_MaryKirkpatrick.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=7.9486979166667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Should we help wild animals get to better habitats to survive?
![The crucial first step in preparing for a climate disaster](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2162853758_47819d.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The crucial first step in preparing for a climate disaster](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-2162853758_47819d.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Believing we’re invulnerable to emergencies isn’t going to work.
![These reviled birds of prey literally save people’s lives](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1241170086.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![These reviled birds of prey literally save people’s lives](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1241170086.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
When vultures died off in India, people died too.
![Wildfires will put even more pressure on the country’s housing crisis](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2163680097.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.66%2C0%2C66.68%2C100&w=2400)
![Wildfires will put even more pressure on the country’s housing crisis](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2163680097.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0099980003999178%2C100%2C99.9800039992&w=2400)
California’s Park Fire displaced thousands of people. What will happen to them?
![Venezuela’s Maduro just tightened his grip on power. What comes next?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2164043790.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Venezuela’s Maduro just tightened his grip on power. What comes next?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2164043790.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Nicolás Maduro has presided over Venezuela’s economic decline — while increasing his authoritarian tendencies.
![Do bigger highways actually help reduce traffic?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-960093634.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.630434782609%2C0%2C66.739130434783%2C100&w=2400)
![Do bigger highways actually help reduce traffic?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-960093634.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.054288816503799%2C100%2C99.891422366992&w=2400)
How America’s ever-widening highways are built on a lie.
![Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2153021385.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.691521090754%2C0%2C66.616957818492%2C100&w=2400)
The fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture bamboozle, explained.
![Joe Biden’s enormous, contradictory, and fragile climate legacy](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1793259269.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.663429792193%2C0%2C66.673140415615%2C100&w=2400)
![Joe Biden’s enormous, contradictory, and fragile climate legacy](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1793259269.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0048548402757547%2C100%2C99.990290319448&w=2400)
If elected, Trump could slow down Biden’s progress, but the shift to clean energy is unstoppable.
![What Kamala Harris’s track record on climate makes clear](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2159966599.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![What Kamala Harris’s track record on climate makes clear](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2159966599.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Biden was the best climate president ever. Will she build on that legacy?
![The Vox guide to extreme heat](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24811648/Screen_Shot_2023_07_25_at_8.02.10_AM.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=21.943711521548%2C0%2C56.112576956904%2C100&w=2400)
![The Vox guide to extreme heat](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24811648/Screen_Shot_2023_07_25_at_8.02.10_AM.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=7.9155672823219%2C0%2C84.168865435356%2C100&w=2400)
Heat records will keep falling. Our guide on why it’s so hot, how to stay cool, and climate solutions.
![Climate change is literally making our days longer](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1630149314.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Climate change is literally making our days longer](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1630149314.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Well, we sure have made a mess of things.
![The lessons Houston didn’t learn from Hurricane Harvey](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2161768769.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.142857142857%2C0%2C65.714285714286%2C100&w=2400)
![The lessons Houston didn’t learn from Hurricane Harvey](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2161768769.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.71428571428572%2C0%2C98.571428571429%2C100&w=2400)
The city is no stranger to hurricanes and all sorts of extreme weather. So why is it struggling after Beryl?
![Storm chasing has changed — a lot — since Twister](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2571_D038_00042_0034R_COMP.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.672046481601%2C0%2C66.655907036798%2C100&w=2400)
![Storm chasing has changed — a lot — since Twister](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/2571_D038_00042_0034R_COMP.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0080697224015509%2C0%2C99.983860555197%2C100&w=2400)
These days, anyone can follow a tornado, but you’ll want to leave that to the professionals.
![Too hot to sleep? Tips for a good night’s rest, even in extreme summer heat.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1222795783_49f385.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Too hot to sleep? Tips for a good night’s rest, even in extreme summer heat.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1222795783_49f385.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Why you’re getting lousy sleep right now — and what to do about it.
![Why Hurricane Beryl was more than Houston could handle](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2161703746.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.724356755509%2C0%2C66.551286488981%2C100&w=2400)
![Why Hurricane Beryl was more than Houston could handle](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2161703746.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.086535133264107%2C0%2C99.826929733472%2C100&w=2400)
The factors fueling the storm’s strength — and the city’s widespread power outages — have been building for months.
![The US is failing renters during extreme heat waves](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2157496725.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.67%2C0%2C66.66%2C100&w=2400)
![The US is failing renters during extreme heat waves](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2157496725.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0050000000000026%2C0%2C99.99%2C100&w=2400)
Laws require landlords to provide heat. It’s not the same for AC.
![How public universities hooked America on meat](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/JoeGough_Vox_LandGrant_Final.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=13.767447916667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
University scientists helped build factory farming. Now, some want to protect its “social license to operate.”
![Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2161406131.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.150125403081%2C0%2C67.699749193837%2C100&w=2400)
![Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2161406131.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.76298844491487%2C100%2C98.47402311017&w=2400)
Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.
![What American cities could do right now to save us from this unbearable heat](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2157565374.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.509316770186%2C0%2C70.981366459627%2C100&w=2400)
![What American cities could do right now to save us from this unbearable heat](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2157565374.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C3.0393186325983%2C100%2C93.921362734803&w=2400)
The solution is tall and green and leafy and grows all on its own.
![Scientists want to bring back one of the ocean’s most unexpected predators](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/adler-8670.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=7.71328125%2C0%2C66.7%2C100&w=2400)
The sunflower sea star is functionally extinct. It could be key to saving our kelp forests.
![Stop setting your thermostat at 72](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-510630038.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.791044776119%2C0%2C66.417910447761%2C100&w=2400)
![Stop setting your thermostat at 72](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-510630038.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.1865671641791%2C0%2C99.626865671642%2C100&w=2400)
Let’s settle the heated debate over your AC, once and for all.
![The Caribbean has a defense system against deadly hurricanes — but it’s vanishing](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/1000x1000.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
![The Caribbean has a defense system against deadly hurricanes — but it’s vanishing](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/1000x1000.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C16.666666666667%2C100%2C66.666666666667&w=2400)
Hurricane Beryl and other superstorms would be much more dangerous without these iconic ocean animals.
![Our most meaningful solutions to the climate crisis are hidden in plain sight](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2159617282.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669829222011%2C0%2C66.660341555977%2C100&w=2400)
![Our most meaningful solutions to the climate crisis are hidden in plain sight](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2159617282.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0047438330170806%2C0%2C99.990512333966%2C100&w=2400)
Introducing “Changing With Our Climate,” a new Vox series explaining Indigenous solutions to extreme weather.
![What 6 degrees of warming means for a community built on ice](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Vox_AlaskaHeat.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
Alaska is warming far faster than most of the world. For Indigenous people on the front lines, adaptation can be surprisingly simple.
![If it’s 100 degrees out, does your boss have to give you a break? Probably not.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1412316420.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.646622569653%2C0%2C66.706754860694%2C100&w=2400)
![If it’s 100 degrees out, does your boss have to give you a break? Probably not.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1412316420.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.03004807692308%2C100%2C99.939903846154&w=2400)
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.
![Hurricane Beryl is the terrifying storm that scientists have been expecting](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2160108793.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.65%2C0%2C66.7%2C100&w=2400)
![Hurricane Beryl is the terrifying storm that scientists have been expecting](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2160108793.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.02498750624688%2C100%2C99.950024987506&w=2400)
Beryl is now the earliest storm to reach Category 5 on record. It’s a terrifying preview of what the season could bring.