Can We Move Our Forests in Time to Save Them?
Trees have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to avoid climate catastrophe.
Trees have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to avoid climate catastrophe.
Lauren Markham Mother Jones Nov 2021 Permalink
Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it.
Elaina Plott Pacific Standard Sep 2018 20min Permalink
How much sand can a half-billion dollars dredge up? Almost certainly not enough.
Polly Mosendz, Eric Roston Bloomberg Green Oct 2021 15min Permalink
A last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government’s obligations to the displaced.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2021 30min Permalink
For the past two decades, the micronation of Westarctica has grown in prominence—and is now using its power for something other than Antarctic domination.
Katherine LaGrave Afar Oct 2021 15min Permalink
Awash in coders, crypto, and capital, the city is loving—and beginning to shape—its newest industry.
Benjamin Wallace New York Sep 2021 30min Permalink
How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.
Eric Klinenberg New Yorker Jul 2021 25min Permalink
We’re totally unprepared for what’s to come.
Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Jun 2021 25min Permalink
Finding meaning in the climate fight.
Greg Jackson Harper's May 2021 20min Permalink
The Massachusetts Audubon Society has managed its land as wildlife habitat for years. Here’s how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change.
Lisa Song, James Temple ProPublica, MIT Technology Review May 2021 10min Permalink
Her home still wrecked months after a freak storm, an Iowa woman’s FEMA ordeal presages the turmoil ahead as climate disasters worsen.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Apr 2021 20min Permalink
Birds do it. Bees do it. Learning about the astounding navigational feats of wild creatures can teach us a lot about where we’re going.
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker Mar 2021 25min Permalink
The biomass industry is warming up the South’s economy, but many experts worry it’s doing the same to the climate. Will the Biden Administration embrace it, or cut it loose?
Michael Grunwald Politico Mar 2021 30min Permalink
A notoriously brutal industry is slowly building supports for its workers.
Christina Couch Hakai Magazine Mar 2021 15min Permalink
A writer bears witness to New York’s endangered species.
Emily Raboteau Orion Mar 2021 25min Permalink
During a decade when Cascadia’s governments flouted their carbon emissions goals, activists fighting fossil fuel exports exceeded their wildest expectations.
Robert McClure Investigate West Jan 2021 15min Permalink
Our climate models could be missing something big.
Peter Brannen The Atlantic Feb 2021 Permalink
Washington state’s redoubled climate goals and fresh action plan revive hope to cut emissions. But ongoing fossil fuel development in BC could undercut Cascadia’s progress.
Peter Fairley Investigate West Jan 2021 15min Permalink
A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.
Elizabeth Weil ProPublica Jan 2021 15min Permalink
A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.
Robert Moor Outside Dec 2020 25min Permalink
California’s redwoods, sequoias and Joshua trees define the American West and nature’s resilience through the ages. Wildfires this year were their deadliest test.
John Branch The New York Times Dec 2020 20min Permalink
In Gujarat, India, a special breed of camel is not constrained by land—but cannot escape the many forces of change.
Shanna Baker Hakai Sep 2020 15min Permalink
Millions will be displaced. Where will they go?
Abrahm Lustgarten The New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 30min Permalink
Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.
Paige St. John, Anna M. Phillips, Joseph Serna, Sonali Kohli, Laura Newberry Los Angeles Times Nov 2018 15min Permalink
For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Jul 2020 40min Permalink