Articles by

Matt Simon

The Feds Just Bet Even Bigger on American-Made Heat Pumps

While everyone’s been focused on accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles to cut carbon emissions, a technological...

The City of Tomorrow Will Run on Your Toilet Water

The residents of the 40 floors of San Francisco apartments above our heads may live in luxury,...

NASA’s New PACE Observatory Searches for Clues to Humanity’s Future

Way up in the sky and sprinkled across the seas, two of the littlest yet most influential...

These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump

Death is coming for the old-school gas furnace—and its killer is the humble heat pump. They’re already...

Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains

Stretching thousands upon thousands of miles under your feet, a web of fibrous ears is listening. Whether...

The World’s Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble

The water that pours out of your tap, or that’s unnecessarily packaged in a single-use bottle, or...

Trawling Boats Are Hauling Up Ancient Carbon From the Ocean Depths

The fillet of flounder sitting on your plate comes with a severe environmental cost. To catch it,...

The Surprising Things That Helped Make 2023 the Hottest Year Ever

Following a summer and autumn of planetary extremes—the hottest September by a wide margin, supercharged hurricanes, self-perpetuating...