In 2021, Chris Gloninger, a television weatherman in Boston with a passion for climate science, was approached with an intriguing prospect. Would he...

How to Make 3,000-Year-Old Beer

The idea came to Dylan McDonnell early in the pandemic, when a sourdough-baking craze took over a nation under lockdown. Mr. McDonnell, an...

Dilemma on Wall Street: Short-Term Gain or Climate Benefit?

A team of economists recently analyzed 20 years of peer-reviewed research on the social cost of carbon, an estimate of the damage from...

Ancient Shipwreck Preserves a Deep Bronze Age Time Capsule

Remains of the oldest shipwreck ever discovered in deep water, and perhaps the oldest complete wreck in any water, have been located in...

From Ukraine, Two Enormous Passengers Are Trucked and Flown to Safety

It was a whale of an evacuation. Actually, two.In what experts said was among the most complex marine mammal rescue ever undertaken, the...

Do We Need Language to Think?

For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato believed it was essential for thinking. Thought “is a silent...

Get Ready for the Longest Day of the Year in the Northern Hemisphere

On Thursday, everyone in the northern half of our planet will experience the summer solstice. It’ll be the longest day of the year...

South Africa Runs Out of Insulin Pens as Global Supply Shifts to Weight-Loss Drugs

South Africa’s public health care system has run out of the human insulin pens that it provides to people with diabetes, as the...

The Eternal Pull of the Fascinating, Deadly Volcano

ADVENTURES IN VOLCANOLAND: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves, by Tamsin MatherI live on a hump of pink granite, part...

In the History of United States Heat Waves, 1936 Stands Out

By the time cool air from Canada’s Hudson Bay arrived to relieve the baking Upper Midwest in July 1936, the United States had...

Why Longer Heat Waves Are So Dangerous

For tens of millions of Americans this week, summer is starting with a multiday blast of fierce heat. Temperatures in parts of the...

How to Stay Cool Indoors During the Heat Wave

Summer officially starts on Thursday, and this season is predicted to be hotter than normal — a heat wave across the country this...

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