Bringing Home Braden
The extraordinary “rescue” of a fallen California firefighter.
Climate Change
The Air Conditioning Trap: How Cold Air Is Heating the World
The warmer it gets, the more we use air conditioning. The more we use air conditioning, the warmer it gets. Is there any way out of this trap?
Awkward Cause
An academic in Calgary lives an extreme low-carbon lifestyle. But he really doesn’t want to make you feel weird about it.
Rainforest on Fire
On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s war on the Amazon.
California Against the Sea
The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim.
An Even More Inconvenient Truth
Why carbon credits for forest preservation may be worse than nothing.
Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again. And It Will Never End.
A bulletin from our climate future.
Climate Change Could Destroy His Home in Peru. So He Sued an Energy Company in Germany.
Local communities are taking the world’s largest polluters to court. And they’re using the legal strategy that got tobacco companies to pay up.
Heaven or High Water
How Miami’s real estate industry turns a blind eye to climate change.
Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast
The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Floating"
The physical and sociological effects of climate change in Thailand.
Time to Panic
An essay on why fear may be the only thing that saves humanity from climate change.
Climate Signs
What climate change means for kids in New York.
The Mysterious Life (and Death) of Africa’s Oldest Trees
On the plight of the baobab tree.
Fuel to the Fire
How a U.S. law intended to reduce dependence on fossil fuels has unleashed an environmental disaster in Indonesia.
Life on a Shrinking Planet
With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable.
Before There Was a Spark, There Was the Wind
Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.
The Big Meltdown
A report from Antartica, where the ecosystem is changing so fast scientists have no idea what will come next.
The Ghosts of the Glacier
When the Swiss Alps heat up, the ice gives up bodies and secrets.
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.
California Burning
On the ubiquity of forest fires.
What Are We Doing Here?
Drought, dread, and family in the American Southwest.
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The King of South Phoenix"
The intersection of climate change and reality TV.
The Last Days of Jerry Brown
A profile of California’s governor at the end of more than 40 years in public life.
