CausesSteven Guerrisi/Fickr/Great Pacific Garbage Patch, by Steven Guerrisi and Sarah WanCommercial use & mods allowed Animals are migrating to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch The oceanic soup of plastic fragments is becoming a new kind of ecosystem.
Politicscommons.wikimedia.org Electric vehicles are a status symbol now The experience of owning, charging, and driving an electric vehicle makes the rising inequality of America more visible in new and subtle ways.
NewsletterAutomotive Rhythms/Flickr The electric Hummer is a mix between an ambulance and a race car The combo of speed and weight is a safety problem for everyone.
Newsletter www.theatlantic.com How climate change helped fuel the U.S. lumber shortage Bitcoin? Blasé. Gold? Going out of style. "The hottest commodity on the planet," according to Dustin Jalbert, an economist at the market-research firm Fastmarkets, is lumber.
Politics www.theatlantic.com Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for President The Washington governor has a single-minded focus: pulling the country back from the climate-change brink.
