Nitish Pahwa
About Nitish Pahwa
Copy editor with Slate.
Americans are losing their access to water at the worst possible moment
The heat waves wracking the country are bad enough on their own. But they’re colliding with another crisis: The water is running low.
Why Toyota spent years behaving like electric cars were the enemy
Once a pioneer in green transportation, the auto company is now uttered in the same breath as Exxon. What happened?
U.S. Forest Service puts a hard stop on controlled burns for wildfire control
The U.S. is determined to douse every wildfire burning in the western states..
India-China conflict is bad for the planet
A battle with China would be devastating for India, and potentially the whole world given that these are both nuclear-armed powers. But even if full-scale war is avoided, the conflict could have grim consequences for the rest of the planet.