A selection of this year’s best environmental journalism — Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change Or Keep Burning Coal? You Can’t Have Both “Countries can either keep using coal at current levels or limit future warming to the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) target of the Paris climate agreement. It’s impossible to do both. But this scientific reality has been an elephant in the room of high-level international climate negotiations for years…

A selection of this year’s best environmental journalism — How prisons in a US state botched wildfire evacuations “Botched evacuations aside, many prisons built decades ago do not have ventilation systems designed for intensifying wildfires and heat. Oregon’s oldest institutions were built in the 1950s or earlier and do not have central air-conditioning, Black said; instead, they rely on “alternative cooling methods”, such as fans and providing inmates…

A selection of this year’s best environmental journalism — Don’t Look Up: the first good movie about climate change “The movie is about having knowledge but being unable to make the knowledge matter, being unable to make anyone hear or act on it. By compressing the timeline to six months and making the threat a singular force, visible in the sky, it brings the absurdity of the situation to…

A selection of this year’s best environmental journalism — Poison in the Air “In all, ProPublica identified more than a thousand hot spots of cancer-causing air. They are not equally distributed across the country. A quarter of the 20 hot spots with the highest levels of excess risk are in Texas, and almost all of them are in Southern states known for having…

A selection of this year’s best environmental journalism — What’s in — and what’s out of — Biden’s latest spending proposal “The framework outlines major investments in the fight against climate change, particularly in three of the country’s biggest polluting sectors: transportation, electric power, and industrial manufacturing. The White House outlined about $550 billion for climate spending, retaining most of the funds from its original plan — but in a different…

A selection of this year’s best environmental journalism — Can ‘the people’ solve climate change? France decided to find out. “In theory, citizens’ assemblies can be more representative than traditional democracies — and ultimately, more fair. Most governments give power to elected officials who often already have power in the form of money, connections, or public recognition. Citizens’ assemblies hand power directly to the people (or at least, a randomly…

A selection of this year’s best environmental journalism — The ice shelf holding back the ‘Doomsday glacier’ could shatter within the next five years, scientists warn “The glacier, which equals the size of Florida or Great Britain, already accounts for about 4% of annual global sea level rise, loses roughly 50 billion tons of ice each year, and is becoming highly vulnerable to the climate crisis. The fall of the ice shelf could bring the impending…

A selection of this year’s best environmental journalism — Electric Cars Have Hit an Inflection Point “An electric car is an expensive, highly specialized piece of technology, but building one takes even more expensive, specialized technology — tools that tend to be custom-made, large and heavy, and spread across a factory or the world. And if you want those tools to produce a car in a…

A selection of this year’s best environmental journalism Boris Johnson warns EU to choose between Ukraine and Nord Stream 2 “Ukrainian officials also fear the alternative gas route to western Europe could make it easier for Russia to invade the country, where it has supported proxy fighters in the eastern Donbass region since 2014, the same year it annexed Crimea from the…