Umair Irfan
Correspondent
Umair Irfan is a correspondent at Vox writing about climate change, energy policy, and science. He has written about universal vaccines, the environmental paradox of air conditioning, and the mysterious rise of food allergies. He has reported on the ground from California’s deadliest wildfire, from the laboratory housing the world’s most powerful laser, and from the tallest structure in Latin America, deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
Irfan is also a regular contributor to and occasional host of the radio program Science Friday. Prior to Vox, he was a reporter for ClimateWire at E&E News in Washington, DC, where he covered environmental health, the Department of Energy, and climate research. His work has also been published in Scientific American and the New York Times. You can DM him on X at @umairfan.
Latest articles by Umair Irfan
Wildfires have turned the Arctic into a net carbon emitter. That’s bad news.
This year’s most important climate meeting just ended. What did it accomplish?
The world’s worst air pollution is getting worse, but there are concrete ways to fix it.
Greenhouse gas emissions are higher than ever as key leaders threaten to walk away from this year’s UN climate talks.
A reader asks whether the latest developments in clean energy technology can help save the planet. We break it down.
Tech companies need more energy. They’re about to do something unprecedented.
Claudia Sheinbaum, la nueva presidenta, ya está remodelando su industria energética.
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What we know — and don’t know — about how global warming influences tropical storms.
Scientists are getting better at predicting the sun’s antics.
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