Category: Climate

A man attempts to secure the roof of his home ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Melissa in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, on October 27, 2025. | Stringer/AFP via Getty Images We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. Learn more about how to support our work. Hurricane Melissa plowed through…

Waves splash in Kingston, Jamaica, as Hurricane Melissa approached. | Matias Delacroix/Associated Press Hurricane Melissa, already one of the strongest hurricanes in history, made landfall in Cuba on Wednesday morning as a Category 3 strength with winds at 120 miles per hour. It has now weakened to Category 2. The National Hurricane Center warned that…

A green sea turtle in Hawaii. | Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images Scientists who study wildlife are often the bearers of bad news — this species or that is headed for extinction for the usual reasons, like deforestation or climate change. Just last week, for example, I wrote about new science showing that two valuable…

Strings of eggs from breeding pairs of the Houston toad at the Fort Worth Zoo are prepared for release into a pond at Griffith League Ranch. Each bag of eggs is filled with local pond water to acclimatize them to temperature and water quality and then emptied into floating bags that will help protect the…

Fish in the Florida Keys swim above the coral reef, near Key Largo. | Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images The idea of extinction — the permanent loss of life — is frightening. Yet the stakes of losing plants and animals are often unclear. If an already-rare bird vanishes from the forest, most people probably…

An Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia. | Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images If you’ve noticed your electricity bill is higher than normal recently, you’re not alone. Power is getting more expensive everywhere, outpacing inflation. One major culprit? The flurry of new data centers being built to meet demand from the AI sector. To…

Indray maraina mazava masoandro tamin’ny volana septambra, niverina an-tanety ireo mpanjono tao Ambolimailaky, tanàna iray amoron-dranomasina any atsimo-andrefan’i Madagasikara. | Garth Cripps ho an’ny Vox Click here to read this story in English. HELODRANON’NY RANOBE, Madagasikara — Ny haran-dranomasina (vatohara) izy tenany dia tena tsara tokoa. Miaina any amin’ny dimy kilaometatra miala ny morontsiraka izy…

On a sunny morning in September, fishermen sail to shore in Ambolimailaky, a village along the coast of southwestern Madagascar. | Garth Cripps for Vox Tsindrio eto raha te hamaky ity lahatsoratra ity amin’ny teny Malagasy. BAY OF RANOBE, Madagascar — The coral reef itself was exquisite. Growing about 3 miles offshore in 50 feet of…

An Amazon Web Services data center in Manassas, Virginia. Virginia is home to the largest concentration of data centers in PJM, a power grid that spans 13 states and Washington, DC. Your electricity bill is rising. Naturally, you’re mad about it and looking around at who to blame. But it’s not a who, it’s a…

A juvenile globe-horned chameleon in a nature reserve north of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Throughout the Western world, Madagascar is perhaps best known as a hot spot for wildlife, home to lemurs, chameleons, and other animals — a reputation popularized by movies like Madagascar and shows like Planet Earth. And it’s true that the country has an…