Amanda Kolson Hurley

Japan’s Economic Revival Is Failing to Save Its Vanishing Towns

Green Daily

Japan’s Rice Crops Are in a Climate Cooker

GOP To End Clean Power Credits Years Earlier In Revised Bill

Climate Politics

Trump’s Tax Bill Would Dampen, But Not Quash, the Clean Energy Buildout

US additions to solar, wind and storage would drop 10% by 2035, with wind hit the hardest, a BNEF analysis finds.

Review

In ‘The Brutalist,’ the Suffering Is the Point

Brady Corbet’s new film aims to reframe our understanding of Brutalist architecture — and the American dream.

GREENLAND-ENVIRONMENT-CLIMATE CHANGE-ICEBERGS

Politics

Riding the Backlash Against Climate Policies

Weather & Science

Climate Change Threatens 400-Year-Old Jamestown and Its Buried Secrets

Archaeologists in Virginia are racing to study and save the remains of North America’s first permanent English colony from rising seas and flooding.

Cleaner Tech

Frontier Carbon Removal Fund Makes $7 Million in New Commitments

The Stripe-led group purchased services from 12 startups that remove carbon from the atmosphere using everything from rivers to machines.

Key Speakers At The Aspen Ideas: Climate Conference

Greener Living

Get Ready to See CO2 Footprints Everywhere, Billionaire Steyer Says

The billionaire investor and co-founder of Galvanize Climate Solutions Tom Steyer says regulators are pushing companies to open up about their climate impact.

Timber Town

Why Wood Is the Breakout Architecture Star of the Early 21st Century

Timber skyscrapers and campuses are proliferating around the world. A new Bloomberg Green series looks at the rise and climate-boosting potential of an ancient material made new.

Timber Town

How a Seattle Architect Helped Make Timber Towers Legal in the US

“My hope is that we’re changing the 20th-century paradigm of construction,” says Susan Jones.

Sparklines

Jimmy Carter’s Presidency Was Defined by Energy

The 98-year-old former president was an early champion of solar power who also saw coal as key to the US reducing its dependence on foreign oil.

Feature

My History With Scoliosis Made Me Seek a Better Treatment for My Son

The back brace has barely advanced since the 1970s. My journey through the latest gear—and surgical options—showed me how far is left to go.

The Cities Issue

Cities Battered by the Pandemic Find New Ways to Survive

A global look at urban life during a singular period of change and uncertainty.

Remarks

The Capitol Being Turned Into a Fortress Spurs D.C. Push for Statehood

Increased security measures in the wake of Jan. 6 have deepened the rift between the city and its federal overlords.

Crises

America in Crisis: A Closer Look at a Deeply Polarized Nation

Mapping how income inequality, partisanship, health disparities, the recession, racism, and climate change are affecting the country.

Design

A Costume Ball Where Architects Dress as Buildings

In a revival of a 1930s society party, guests at a Chicago ball wore outfits of famous buildings such as Marina Bay Sands and the Aqua Tower.

Design

How an Architect Who Designs ‘Half-Houses’ Rebuilt a City

Alejandro Aravena, who helped a city recover from an earthquake and a tsunami, says participatory design is not just inclusive but “more efficient.”

Design

What’s the Deal With AOC’s Retro-Style GND Posters?

Posters for the Green New Deal unveiled by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez strongly evoke a famous Depression-era federal art program.

Design

What Internet Memes Get Wrong About Breezewood, Pennsylvania

A photo of a strip of fast-food outlets and gas stations is used to critique the sameness of the American landscape. But it could only be one place on Earth.

Environment

The Detested Bradford Pear Tree Is Coming to a Forest Near You

Cities and states are trying to remove Bradford pears‚ but the “weed trees” have already intruded deep into some forests, a biologist warns.

Design

A Brazilian Vision Blooms Anew in the Bronx

The New York Botanical Garden pulls out all the stops for its new exhibit on Modernist garden designer Roberto Burle Marx.