The Ghosts of the Glacier
When the Swiss Alps heat up, the ice gives up bodies and secrets.
Climate Change
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.
Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration
How extreme weather, which displaced more than a million people last year, could reshape America.
Our Drowning Coast
How the disappearing bayou town of Jean Lafitte, Louisiana is trying to delay its inevitable end.
The Road
Traveling the highway that could make Brazil an economic powerhouse — at the expense of the Amazon.
Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People?
Humanity has 30 years to find out.
Can Carbon-Dioxide Removal Save the World?
CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.
The Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist
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 Loneliest Polar Bear
The life and times of Nora.
“A Reckoning for Our Species”
A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton, who wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs.
Michael Foster Is Defiant
The activist who turned off the Keystone pipeline last fall is facing years in prison - and not backing down.
The Doomsday Glacier
”In West Antarctica, scientists have discovered the engine of catastrophe.”
Our Climate Future Is Actually Our Climate Present
An essay about what we’ll lose, and what we’ve already lost.
Welcome to Pleistocene Park
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.
The Detective of Northern Oddities
When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska, veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.
The Long View
A photographer’s quest to document a changing planet from above.
Greenland Is Melting
The shrinking of the country’s ice sheet is triggering feedback loops that accelerate the global crisis.
The Last Whale Hunt for a Vanishing Alaskan Village
A story from the end of the earth.
Whale Hunters of the Warming Arctic
Few Americans are as affected by climate change as Alaska’s Inupiat, or as dependent on the fossil-fuel economy.
The Slideshow That Saved the World
An oral history of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
