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Heatmap Wins a National Magazine Award

We have some exciting news to share.

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The Complicated Case for Pollotarianism

America should eat more chicken. But how many is too many?

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Podcast

Shift Key Is Opening the Mail Bag

Answering your questions on AI and energy, the economics of solar, the Green New Deal’s legacy, and more.

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Culture

18 Climate Books to Read in 2025

And another 14 honorable mentions for the heck of it.

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2024 movies.

2024 Was the Year the Climate Movie Grew Up

Whether you agree probably depends on how you define “climate movie” to begin with.

Culture

Where Are All the Fictional Movies About Climate Change?

Climate shouldn’t be only a story for documentaries.

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Paranormal: Caught on Camera is not the kind of television show you’d typically expect to read about in a research paper. Recent episodes include “Haunted Doll Bites Child” and “UFO Takes Off in Argentina”; a critic once described it as unsuitable for viewers who have developed “some powers of critical thought.” But credit where credit is due: Caught on Camera cites “climate change” as a possible cause of increased sightings of the Loch Ness monster.

This, alas, is the kind of meager victory the climate movement is often forced to celebrate.

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AM Briefing: Can Lego Ditch Fossil Fuels?

On climate-friendly toys, the Sunrise Movement, and solar-powered schools

Lego’s New Plan to Ditch Fossil Fuels
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Current conditions: Torrential rain caused a dam to burst in eastern Sudan, killing at least 30 people • Brazil’s environment minister said the country is “at war” with wildfires • The scorching heat that has blanketed the Midwest this week is shifting east.

THE TOP FIVE

1. 3 takeaways from the DOE’s energy jobs report

The U.S. Department of Energy’s annual Energy and Employment report is out today. It’s a compendium of information on employment and job growth across the many energy-related sectors of the economy, and contains hundreds of data points on which job areas grew, which shrank, and by how much in 2023. The report “is perhaps one of the current administration’s last opportunities to prove that President Biden’s — and, by extension, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ — policies to stimulate the U.S. economy with investments in clean energy are working,” wrote Heatmap’s Emily Pontecorvo. Here are her three takeaways:

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