Brian Kahn
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Environmental Disaster Sites I Would Like to Visit
Earlier this week, Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said the country will renew its efforts to close the Gateway to Hell,... → Read More
Why People Can't Stop Talking About Don't Look Up
If you’ve spent even a minute on the internet this week, you have surely seen something about Don’t Look Up.... → Read More
2021: What the Actual Shit Was That?
Einstein famously established the relativity of time. But even his elegant theory and the refinements that have followed perhaps fail to capture → Read More
Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier Is Close to Becoming Unhinged
There’s nothing like sitting through a series of presentations about all the ways one of the most imperiled glaciers on Earth to get the blood → Read More
You Need to Care About This
The United Nations climate talks ended with a pretty mixed bag of results. The good? That there was a deal at all plus a number of commitments outside → Read More
U.S. and 19 Other Countries Agree to Stop Funding Fossil Fuel Projects Abroad
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — In a major announcement at United Nations climate talks on Thursday, 20 countries said they would stop funding fossil fuel → Read More
One Weird Trick World Leaders Have to Stop Climate Change
Over the weekend, world leaders of the G20 tossed a coin into Rome’s Trevi Fountain to wish for good luck... → Read More
The Scientists Are Terrified
A new Nature survey shows a majority of the world’s leading climate scientists expect “catastrophic” impacts in their lifetimes driven... → Read More
The 10 UNESCO World Heritage Forests That Humans Ruined
UNESCO World Heritage Sites are the planet’s most iconic places and include sites from the natural and built world. But... → Read More
Shell CEO Roasted at TED Climate Conference He Was Foolishly Invited to Speak At
On Thursday, a strange scene unfolded at the International Conference Centre in Edinburgh. Shell CEO Ben van Beurden took the stage... → Read More
United Nations Tells Kids to Screw Off
Two years ago, a group of teens and pre-teens filed a petition with the United Nations saying five major emitters were violating their rights. On → Read More
We Finally Know How Much Rideshares Are Costing the Planet
Rideshare companies’ big pitch has always been about efficiency. Cities, the argument goes, would reap the benefits of fewer cars on the roads. → Read More
Hurricane Ida Is Hitting Louisiana Amid a Covid-19 Surge. It’s a Nightmare in the Making.
Hurricane Ida has officially made landfall in Louisiana. There’s never a good time for one of the worst storms to... → Read More
The Water-Shortage Era Has Officially Begun
The West’s biggest water supply system is in crisis, with the U.S. federal government declaring the first-ever shortage for the Colorado River on → Read More
California Takes a Massive Step Toward All-Electric Homes
The race to electrify every house in the U.S. just got a jolt courtesy of California. The most populous state in the country has passed new energy → Read More
Dubai Is Creating Artificial Rainstorms With Drones
The Middle East, already on the edge of human habitability due to extreme heat, could become unlivable by mid-century due to rising temperatures and → Read More
NASA: Earth Is Absorbing an ‘Unprecedented’ Amount of Heat
Ominous new research shows that the Earth is taking in a shocking amount of heat. In the past 15 years, the amount of incoming solar radiation trapped → Read More
Shell Just Got Wrecked in Dutch Court
A court in the Netherlands just handed down a landmark ruling, ordering Shell to slash its carbon pollution 45% by 2030. It’s hard to overstate how radical the ruling is and the far-ranging impacts it could have not just for the Dutch oil giant but oil companies around the world.... → Read More
Climate Change Has Knocked Earth Off Its Axis
Of all the things attributable to climate change, the magnetic poles moving differently is definitely one of the weirder ones. But a new study shows that’s exactly what’s happening. It builds on previous findings to show that disappearing ice is playing a major role, and shows that groundwater depletion is... → Read More
How to Fix Crypto Art NFTs' Carbon Pollution Problem
The “crypto-” carbon crisis is evolving. And after years of low-key use, art and collectibles tied to what are known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have exploded into the global discourse as the Next Big Thing. Embedded with it, though, is an existential tension. Crypto-art buying is built on the same... → Read More