Category: Climate

A family of African savanna elephants in Mikumi National Park in Tanzania. This elephant is listed as endangered. | Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The US Fish and Wildlife Service, the nation’s only government agency dedicated to conserving plants and animals, has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants, Vox has learned….

Southern California experienced an exceptionally hot and dry start to winter this year, setting the stage for wildfires. | Kevin Carter/Getty Images Another round of snowy, chilly weather is gripping the United States this week, extending the frigid start to the year across much of North America. Yet despite the cold temperatures over the continent,…

An Eaton wildfire victim Windy Crick, left, hugs her neighbor Liz Oh, after they searched for keepsakes and valuables amid the rubble of their homes in Altadena. | Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. At Vox, our mission is to help…

A rare dunes sagebrush lizard. | Courtesy of Lee Fitzgerald While President Donald Trump has caused chaos and confusion in his first few weeks in office, he’s made one thing very clear: His administration will do everything in its power to supercharge oil and gas production. That agenda is unwelcome news for a small lizard…

Sisters Lesly and Rose Garrido-Lopez view the remains of their home which burned in the Eaton Fire. At their peak, the devastating wildfires that ignited around Los Angeles in January forced upward of 200,000 people to evacuate and torched more than 16,000 homes, offices, and shops. The total economic losses may reach as high as…

Due to the battery’s design, it’s impossible to charge your phone without killing it a little in the process. I used to think I was good at charging stuff. My phone, for instance, almost never dies because I charge it wirelessly overnight, and then, if it’s running low in the afternoon, I blast it with…

“In my view, climate change is real and it is an existential threat.”  “My inclination is to take dams down.” “The toxic chemicals that pollute our air, our water, our soils end up in our own bodies. They ruin our health in the same way that they ruin nature.” Those might sound like comments from…

“In my view, climate change is real and it is an existential threat.”  “My inclination is to take dams down.” “The toxic chemicals that pollute our air, our water, our soils end up in our own bodies. They ruin our health in the same way that they ruin nature.” Those might sound like comments from…

A brown rat, the species commonly found in New York City and other major cities. | Getty Images If we are, as some city officials have said, in a war with rats, we are clearly losing. We’ve been losing for years. Although cities have ramped up their use of poisons and traps, the number of…

A brown rat, the species commonly found in New York City and other major cities. | Getty Images If we are, as some city officials have said, in a war with rats, we are clearly losing. We’ve been losing for years. Although cities have ramped up their use of poisons and traps, the number of…