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The Atlantic Blame climate change, wildfires, hungry beetles … and Millennial home buyers. Joe Sohm / Visions of America / Universal Images Group / Getty Every week, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. 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. In North Ame...

The Atlantic This is the only climate bill coming. Also: Why methane levels surged last year. April 13, 2021 The $100 billion high-speed rail line from San Francisco to Los Angeles remains unfinished.Jim Wilson / The New York Times / Redux Every week, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. There are some real numerical humdingers in President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan. It pled...

The Atlantic Daily: Your Post-pandemic Life Starts With a Haircut With “hot vax summer” looming, people are indulging in a bit of vanity. April 7, 2021 Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. Hold the sweatpants, please. After a year in which beauty rightfully took a back seat, Americans are gearing up to exit this pandemic lookin...

The Weekly Planet: Biden’s Stimulus Is a Big Deal for Public Transit Robinson Meyer Every week, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. Over the weekend, the Senate passed the American Rescue Plan Act, a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package. The House of Representatives is poised to pass it today, and then it will go to President Joe Biden’s desk. Biden, you might remember, ...

The Weekly Planet: The Big Idea From Bill Gates’s New Climate Book Robinson Meyer © Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Every Tuesday, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. Sign up to get The Weekly Planet Lately, Bill Gates has been thinking about what he calls the “hard stuff” of climate change. He isn’t talking about the challenges that w...