
Brad Plumer
Former Senior Editor
Latest articles by Brad Plumer


The average new car now gets around 25.5 miles per gallon — way up from five years ago.


GM has now recalled more cars in 2014 than the entire auto industry did last year.


It’s not just your imagination — America’s air really has been getting cleaner over the past decade.


Beekeepers have been rebuilding bee colonies and transporting bees to where they’re needed. So far, that’s averted disaster.


By the end of the century, Oregon could have more days above 95°F each year than there are currently in Texas.


Climate scientists are now wondering if 2014 or 2015 could be the hottest year on record — particularly if a strong El Niño forms.


The world has made no progress in moving off fossil fuels in the last 15 years.


A surprising amount of seafood sold in the US is either mislabeled or caught illegally


The company is planning to build one of the world’s biggest solar-panel factories in upstate New York.

