On the plight of the baobab tree.

How a U.S. law intended to reduce dependence on fossil fuels has unleashed an environmental disaster in Indonesia.

With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable.

Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.

A report from Antartica, where the ecosystem is changing so fast scientists have no idea what will come next.

When the Swiss Alps heat up, the ice gives up bodies and secrets.

Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it.

On the ubiquity of forest fires.

Drought, dread, and family in the American Southwest.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.

The intersection of climate change and reality TV.

A profile of California’s governor at the end of more than 40 years in public life.

How extreme weather, which displaced more than a million people last year, could reshape America.

How the disappearing bayou town of Jean Lafitte, Louisiana is trying to delay its inevitable end.

Traveling the highway that could make Brazil an economic powerhouse — at the expense of the Amazon.

Humanity has 30 years to find out.

CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.

Cape Coral, Florida, was built on lies. One big storm could wipe it off the map. It’s also the fastest-growing city in the United States.

The life and times of Nora.

A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton, who wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs.

The activist who turned off the Keystone pipeline last fall is facing years in prison - and not backing down.

”In West Antarctica, scientists have discovered the engine of catastrophe.”

An essay about what we’ll lose, and what we’ve already lost.

In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.

When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska, veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.