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.
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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
Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works—and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future.
Noah Gallagher Shannon New York Times Magazine Jul 2020 25min Permalink
EEE kills almost half of its victims, and cases are on the rise.
Oscar Schwartz One Zero Jun 2020 20min Permalink
Headlines have portrayed Australia’s bucket-list destination as dead, or dying. But that’s an oversimplification of a complex story—and the most dire threat from tourism may be what you least expect.
Juli Berwald Afar Apr 2020 15min Permalink
Nature is already socking away a lot of carbon for us. It could soak up a lot more—if we help.
Brooke Jarvis Wired Apr 2020 25min Permalink
A profile of climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Mar 2020 15min Permalink
Snow science against the avalanche.
James Somers New Yorker Mar 2020 30min Permalink
The polar icecaps are melting. Is it OK to have a child? Australia is on fire. Is it OK to have a child? My house is flooded, my crops have failed, my community is fleeing. Is it OK to have a child? It is, in a sense, an impossible question.
Meehan Crist London Review of Books Mar 2020 35min Permalink
The fossil-fuel companies expect to profit from climate change. I went to a private planning meeting and took notes.
Malcolm Harris New York Mar 2020 30min Permalink
A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.
Parul Sehgal New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 20min Permalink
How climate change is altering food in Greenland.
Michael Paterniti GQ Jan 2020 25min Permalink
After Fukushima, balancing the risk of another disaster against the rising danger of climate change.
Carolyn Kormann New Yorker Dec 2019 30min Permalink