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Algorithmic hiring: We’re only human

What is it like going through the job search process without ever interacting with a real person?

Public tech bank: A newer deal

Single-use plastics: The message in a bottle

AI hallucinations: Turn on, tune in, beep boop

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Quartz's Best Companies for Remote Workers 2022

Which companies are best for remote workers? Our ranking spotlights 83 employers who made the cut.

Work reconsidered

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Work reconsidered

Ambition: Can giving up be good for you?

From treating burnout to resisting oppressive systems, how can we achieve our aims without sacrificing too much?

Pay transparency: A double-edged sword

Everything you need to know before embarking on salary transparency

Workers worldwide are questioning what ambition really means to them

The four-day workweek: When is less truly more?

Back in 2014, Anote Tong, then president of Kiribati, one of the world’s most low-lying nations, took a dramatic step to try and save his people from a future of sea level rise. He bought, for around $9 million, a parcel of mountainous land in Fiji,…

Climate change will transform what it means to be a homeowner

The environmental racism threatening South Carolina’s Black communities

India’s megacities aren’t prepared for a wave of climate migrants

Ask a migrant worker living in any one of India’s metropolises why they moved out of their hometown, and the answer is fairly standard: economic hardship.

Shallow Waters

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In a warming world, the fight for water can push nations apart—or bring them together

A major US city will start drinking its own sewage. Others need to follow.

Dams and reservoirs can’t save us. This is the new future of water infrastructure.

North America hasn’t had a megadrought in recorded history. It could be overdue

How Anglo farmers brought an end to Latino ranching in the Rio Grande Valley

Toxic Fuel

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Leaded airplane fuel is poisoning a new generation of American children

It’s a five-minute drive from Michelle Lopez’s home in San Jose, California, to Donald J. Meyer Elementary School, where she drops off her daughter each weekday morning. As seven-year-old Holland tumbles out of the car, the first flights of the day…

Living with the risk of childhood lead exposure: A day in the life

Do you live close enough to a small US airport to have lead exposure? Check our maps

50 years of research shows there is no safe level of childhood lead exposure

In 1976, Herbert Needleman, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, suspected even trace amounts of lead ravaged children’s brains. His opinion was not popular at the time—the prevailing wisdom was only extremely high amounts could inflict such…

The Quartz Obsession podcast

Algorithmic hiring: We’re only human

Public tech bank: A newer deal

Online voting: Yes or no

Single-use plastics: The message in a bottle

AI hallucinations: Turn on, tune in, beep boop

Quartz's Best Companies for Remote Workers 2022

Work reconsidered

Ambition: Can giving up be good for you?

Ambition: Can giving up be good for you?

Pay transparency: A double-edged sword

Everything you need to know before embarking on salary transparency

Workers worldwide are questioning what ambition really means to them

The four-day workweek: When is less truly more?

Welcome to Green Haven

The climate change solutions for the world’s tiniest, most vulnerable nations

Climate change will transform what it means to be a homeowner

The environmental racism threatening South Carolina’s Black communities

India’s megacities aren’t prepared for a wave of climate migrants

Shallow Waters

In a warming world, the fight for water can push nations apart—or bring them together

A major US city will start drinking its own sewage. Others need to follow.

Dams and reservoirs can’t save us. This is the new future of water infrastructure.

North America hasn’t had a megadrought in recorded history. It could be overdue

How Anglo farmers brought an end to Latino ranching in the Rio Grande Valley

Toxic Fuel

Leaded airplane fuel is poisoning a new generation of American children

Living with the risk of childhood lead exposure: A day in the life

Do you live close enough to a small US airport to have lead exposure? Check our maps

50 years of research shows there is no safe level of childhood lead exposure