Wolfgang Cramer’s first involvement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was in the 90s. He worked on the second assessment report, delivered in 1995, which affirmed the science of anthr
When a nearly two-mile section of the I-10 freeway in Los Angeles closed earlier this month due to fire damage, transit advocates like me were anxious to see what leaders would do. Maybe, we thought,
On Labor Day weekend, 35 excited guests arrived at a campground in Newark, Ohio, for a retreat dedicated to “fat joy”—a place where people could swim, dance, do yoga, roast marshmallows, and sleep in
W hen Glen Peters bought a heat pump for his home in Oslo he wasn’t thinking about the carbon it would avoid. Convenience played a role; a fireplace was too much of a hassle – the effort of having to
By Max Bearak, Dionne Searcey and Mira Rojanasakul. Photographs and video by Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber for The New York Times.
Part of a series on the causes and consequences of disappearing water.
Vast stretches of America are dominated by corn, nearly 100 million acres of it, stretching from…
When Chinese engineer Li Hai left the wintry cold of northern China and flew into the humid heat of Tamil Nadu in southern India, he had little idea what to expect. It was early 2023. Months before th
Everyone else is having more sex than you. Men want sex more than women do. And more.
By Catherine Pearson
Chalk it up to the variability in sex education, in high schools and even medical schools, or to the fact that many adults find it hard to talk about sex with the person who regularly sees them…
In the unequal distribution of birds and other species, ecologists are tracing the impact of bigoted urban policies adopted decades ago.
By Hillary Rosner
At a meeting of urban wildlife researchers in Washington, D.C., in June, one diagram made it into so many PowerPoint presentations that its…
This article appears in the February 17, 2020 issue . H is name was William Dorsey Swann, but to his friends he was known as “the Queen.” Both of those names had been forgotten for nearly a century be
Don’t let anybody tell you California can’t move fast on transportation construction. Gov. Gavin Newsom said that the section of the 10 Freeway damaged by a pallet fire will reopen Monday morning, if
Guest Essay
By Kate Marvel
Dr. Marvel, a climate scientist at the environmental nonprofit Project Drawdown, was a lead author on the Fifth National Climate Assessment.
Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I…
The new Macs are here! The new Macs are here! But Apple would like iMac fans to go ahead and buy the 24-inch model, please. Meanwhile, remember Intel? Happy new Macs to all who purchase and celebrate
Los Angeles is a city where the closure of a one-mile stretch of freeway triggers a state of emergency.
It’s true that the 10 isn’t just any freeway. It’s one of the busiest corridors in the country, and the primary route between east and west Los Angeles. The section of the 10 Freeway damaged…
After nearly two and a half years, the iMac has finally gotten its update. The venerable desktop Mac was a late addition to the first generation M1 processor, but now it’s in the vanguard of Apple’s M
Like the M2 MacBook Pro released earlier this year , the new M3 MacBook Pro doesn’t look particularly new. It’s the third iteration of the excellent MacBook Pro redesign from 2021 , featuring flat sid
Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET on May 17, 2023 In March, the World Health Organization issued a dire warning that was also completely obvious: Nearly everyone on the planet consumes too much salt. And not ju
For the first time in the Apple silicon era, Apple isn’t using its lowest-end chip to usher in a new generation of processors. On Monday, Apple announced not just the M3 chip but its beefier siblings,
From the land of Magical Thinking comes the windowless Apple car! This from a company that can’t even keep its pencils straight. And how did Tim Cook look at the iPad lineup over the last year and say
Guest Essay
Source: Berkeley Earth Land/Ocean Temperature Record
By Zeke Hausfather
Dr. Hausfather is the climate research lead at the payments company Stripe and a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, an independent organization that analyzes environmental data.
Staggering. Unnerving.…
Every time any of us packs a bag, we are making some very specific tech-focused decisions. It starts with what devices we need (or can live without) and cascades into charging bricks and cords and any
Guest Essay
By Nicholas Bloom
Mr. Bloom is a professor of economics at Stanford University.
Working from home is here to stay. I can prove it with data — lots and lots of data showing that returning to the office (R.T.O.) is D.O.A.
A telling data point is the number tracking how many Americans…
It’s an entirely innocuous announcement that says so much. Tuesday’s reveal of a new Apple Pencil that’s got a USB-C port and lacks numerous features of both the first- and second-generation Apple Pen
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. When Megan Nolan pu
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Mr. Appelbaum is a member of the editorial board.
The autoworkers picketing factories across America aren’t just seeking higher pay. They are also, audaciously, demanding the end of the standard 40-hour workweek. They want a full week’s pay for working 32…
Evan Greer is a transgender activist, musician and writer based in Boston. She’s the director of the digital rights non-profit Fight For The Future . Senator Marsha Blackburn was recently caught on ca
iPhone designs change at a glacial pace. It’s rare that a new iPhone looks completely unlike the previous model. They’ve all looked more or less the same since the iPhone X ditched the home button bac
The new visual appearance and functionality of watchOS 10 is a welcome change. There was clearly a lot of design and engineering effort put into this new interface and the improvements are tangible fo
macOS Sonoma is an update that feels small—but in all the best ways. Upgrading it won’t change how you look at your Mac, at least not at first. This means that if you’re desperate for change to longst
Even though x is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, it appears throughout American culture – from Stan Lee’s X-Men superheroes to “The X-Files” TV series. The letter x often symbol
Among the oft-quoted Alan Kay’s numerous aphorisms is “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” A sort-of corollary to that, which I believe, is that the best way to appreciate new technol
Was Tuesday’s “Wonderlust” event mostly predictable? Yes. Does that mean it was boring? For some people, yes. But for most people, it was the biggest tech news event of the year, just like Apple’s iPh
It’s a shame they don’t show movies in the Steve Jobs Theater, or at least not ones that I’ve ever been invited to. It’s a fantastic venue with a staggeringly bright digital projection system, but the
India’s homegrown instant payment system has remade commerce and pulled millions into the formal economy.
By Mujib Mashal and Hari Kumar
Reporting from New Delhi, Mumbai and Kerala in India
The little QR code is ubiquitous across India’s vastness.
You find it pasted on a tree next to a roadside…
News Analysis Can India Challenge China for Leadership of the ‘Global South’? A rising India has moved aggressively to champion developing nations, pursuing compromise in polarized times and promising
This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine . On an overcast spring morning in 2012, Federica Bertocchini was tending to her honeybees close to where she lived in Santander, on Spain’s pictu
U.S. World Business Arts Lifestyle Opinion Audio Games Cooking Wirecutter The Athletic Three years into the pandemic, the short- and long-term risks are becoming more clear. By Sept. 7, 2023 Leer en e
Getty Images Jenny Singer is a freelance writer and MFA nonfiction writing candidate at the University of Iowa. Previously on staff at Glamour and the Forward, she has written about unions for Teen Vo
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Joe Casabona’s love
I n October 2022, New York City officials unveiled a new bike lane on Schermerhorn street, one of the most dangerous and heavily trafficked streets in downtown Brooklyn and somewhere I had always avoi
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