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Climate Change

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Floating"

The physical and sociological effects of climate change in Thailand.

Pitchaya Sudbanthad Guernica Mar 2019 15min Permalink

Science

Time to Panic

An essay on why fear may be the only thing that saves humanity from climate change.

David Wallace-Wells New York Times Feb 2019 15min Permalink

Science

Climate Signs

What climate change means for kids in New York.

Emily Raboteau New York Review of Books Feb 2019 50min Permalink

Science

The Mysterious Life (and Death) of Africa’s Oldest Trees

On the plight of the baobab tree.

Jaime Lowe Topic Jan 2019 25min Permalink

Fuel to the Fire

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

Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Nov 2018 35min Permalink

Science

Life on a Shrinking Planet

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

Bill McKibben New Yorker Nov 2018 30min Permalink

Science Travel

The Big Meltdown

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

Craig Welch National Geographic Oct 2018 20min Permalink

History

The Ghosts of the Glacier

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

Sean Flynn GQ Oct 2018 20min Permalink

Science

California Burning

On the ubiquity of forest fires.

William Finnegan New York Review of Books Aug 2018 15min Permalink

Science

What Are We Doing Here?

Drought, dread, and family in the American Southwest.

Cally Carswell High Country News Aug 2018 20min Permalink

Best Article History Science

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.

Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Aug 2018 2h5min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The King of South Phoenix"

The intersection of climate change and reality TV.

Katie M. Flynn Ninth Letter Jul 2018 15min Permalink

Politics

The Last Days of Jerry Brown

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

Andy Kroll California Sunday Mar 2018 25min Permalink

Science

Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration

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

Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Feb 2018 25min Permalink

Politics Science

Our Drowning Coast

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

Kevin Sack, John Schwartz The Times-Picayune Feb 2018 35min Permalink

The Road

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

Stephanie Nolen The Globe and Mail Jan 2018 45min Permalink

History Science World

Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People?

Humanity has 30 years to find out.

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Adapted from The Wizard and the Prophet

Charles C. Mann The Atlantic Jan 2018 25min Permalink

Science

Can Carbon-Dioxide Removal Save the World?

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

Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Nov 2017 25min Permalink

Science

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.

Michael Grunwald Politico Magazine Oct 2017 25min Permalink

Science

The Loneliest Polar Bear

The life and times of Nora.

Kale Williams Oregon Live Oct 2017 40min Permalink

Science

“A Reckoning for Our Species”

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

Alex Blasdel The Guardian Jun 2017 25min Permalink

Crime Science

Michael Foster Is Defiant

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

Kathryn Robinson Seattle Met Jun 2017 25min Permalink

Science

The Doomsday Glacier

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

Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone May 2017 20min Permalink

Science

Our Climate Future Is Actually Our Climate Present

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

Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Apr 2017 10min Permalink

History Science

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.

Ross Andersen The Atlantic Mar 2017 40min Permalink

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