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Climate Change

Science

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.

Lauren Markham Mother Jones Nov 2021 Permalink

Science

The Country's First Climate Change Casualties?

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

Unlimited Sand and Money Still Won’t Save the Hamptons

How much sand can a half-billion dollars dredge up? Almost certainly not enough.

Polly Mosendz, Eric Roston Bloomberg Green Oct 2021 15min Permalink

The Last Days Inside Trailer 83

A last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government’s obligations to the displaced.

Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2021 30min Permalink

Travel

A Very Big Little Country

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

Tech

How Miami Seduced Silicon Valley

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

Science

The Seas Are Rising. Could Oysters Help?

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

Science

Can We Survive Extreme Heat?

We’re totally unprepared for what’s to come.

Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Jun 2021 25min Permalink

Science

Prayer for a Just War

Finding meaning in the climate fight.

Greg Jackson Harper's May 2021 20min Permalink

Business Science Tech

A Nonprofit Promised to Preserve Wildlife. Then It Made Millions Claiming It Could Cut Down Trees.

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

Arts Science

“Assistance Not Approved”

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

Science

Why Animals Don't Get Lost

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

Science

The ‘Green Energy’ That Might Be Ruining the Planet

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

Health

Mental Health and the Modern Fisherman

A notoriously brutal industry is slowly building supports for its workers.

Christina Couch Hakai Magazine Mar 2021 15min Permalink

Arts Politics

Spark Bird

A writer bears witness to New York’s endangered species.

Emily Raboteau Orion Mar 2021 25min Permalink

Science World

A Thin Green Line With Global Impact

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

History Science

The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record

Our climate models could be missing something big.

Peter Brannen The Atlantic Feb 2021 Permalink

Business Politics

After Climate-Protection Drift and Despair, A Blueprint for Success Emerges in Cascadia

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

Science World

The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try.

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

Best Article Health Travel

We're Here to See the Great Doomed Thing

A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.

Robert Moor Outside Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Science

They're Among the World's Oldest Living Things. The Climate Crisis Is Killing Them.

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

Science World

Where Camels Take to the Sea

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

Science

Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration

Millions will be displaced. Where will they go?

Abrahm Lustgarten The New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 30min Permalink

Science

Before There Was a Spark, There Was the Wind

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

Best Article Science World

Where Will Everyone Go?

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

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