What’s so wrong with bottled water, anyway?

A single-use bottle of water is often held up as the paragon example of a product…

Will I be able to tell when we’ve reached a climate tipping point?

This question is inherently, existentially, and unavoidably upsetting. But it still needs an answer.

I want to be a parent, but how can I when things seem so awful?

This is a question I can't answer alone.

I was attacked by a driver. Do cars make us angrier?

Nothing in life is free, including the right to an open road.

How do I get my husband to care?

About climate change, or the environment, or any of those life-or-death abstract things.

Can I have my climate-friendly seafood and eat it, too?

It's complicated, but we figured out some ground rules.

Can I just work on the Paris Agreement myself?

No one wants to hear “actually, you can’t do it by yourself.” But that's how it…

Why is bus ridership falling almost everywhere except Pittsburgh?

We headed to the Paris of Appalachia to investigate this transit mystery -- the best kind…

What is a ‘climate refugee’ and how many are there?

Putting numbers to the problem doesn’t capture the nuances of how a changing climate changes people's…

Does the climate cause need celebrities to survive?

The rich and famous have let us down, and now we're pinning our expectations on children.