IN TODAY’S ISSUE… An interview with beauty industry critic Jessica DeFino on the connections between the beauty industrial complex and the oil industry that absolutely blew my freakin’ mind. Links to additional reading on the connection between beauty culture and climate change. A list of real,…

Notes on Progress is a new diary-style format from Works in Progress. In this issue, Hannah Ritchie writes about how counterintuitive it can be to be an effective environmentalist. If you enjoy it, please share it on social media or by forwarding it to anyone you think might find it interesting. My…

Photo by Saktanong Chaipunya / EyeEm / Getty Images A new coat of paint is an easy way to freshen up your home’s curb appeal. Soon, it may also help keep your house cool. Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new ultra-white paint that reflects 98.1 percent of sunlight and can keep…

In recent weeks, climate activists have thrown tomato soup on a van Gogh painting, spilled milk all over a supermarket floor, covered a waxen King Charles with cake, smeared mashed potatoes on a Monet painting, and glued themselves to famous artworks like Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl…