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Climate Change

Science Health

The Detective of Northern Oddities

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

Christopher Solomon Outside Jan 2017 25min Permalink

Arts Science

The Long View

A photographer’s quest to document a changing planet from above.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Dec 2016 40min Permalink

Science

Greenland Is Melting

The shrinking of the country’s ice sheet is triggering feedback loops that accelerate the global crisis.

Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Oct 2016 35min Permalink

Science

The Last Whale Hunt for a Vanishing Alaskan Village

A story from the end of the earth.

Saki Knafo Men's Journal Oct 2016 25min Permalink

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.

Tom Kizzia New Yorker Sep 2016 25min Permalink

Politics Movies & TV

The Slideshow That Saved the World

An oral history of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

Grist May 2016 25min Permalink

Science

Unfriendly Climate

Katharine Hayhoe is one of the country’s most influential atmospheric scientists, spreading the word about the effects of climate change. She’s also an evangelical Christian.

Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Apr 2016 25min Permalink

Science Health

Something Uneasy in the Los Angeles Air

On the overstated effect of the Santa Ana winds on human behavior and the understated impact of climate change on LA’s seasons.

Adrian Glick Kudler Curbed Apr 2016 10min Permalink

Science Health

The Invisible Catastrophe

Over four months, a methane well in southern California’s Aliso Canyon leaked Lebanon’s equivalent of yearly emissions into the atmosphere. No one knows what the long-term effects will be.

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Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Mar 2016 15min Permalink

Science

Miami Underwater

South Florida and the danger of the rising sea.

Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Dec 2015 25min Permalink

Rotten Ice

Traveling by dogsled in the melting Arctic.

Gretel Ehrlich Harper's Apr 2015 10min Permalink

World

Landlocked Islanders

Displaced from the Marshall Islands, residents build a new life in Oklahoma.

Krista Langlois Hakai Magazine Nov 2015 15min Permalink

Science Travel

The Burning Man of Birding

As the birds decline, one Icelandic island keeps throwing a rowdy, boozy puffin festival.

Brian Kevin Audubon Nov 2015 15min Permalink

Science Religion

The Pope and the Planet

The Pope’s vision for addressing climate change.

Bill McKibben New York Review of Books Aug 2015 15min Permalink

Science

The Other Side of Climate Change

Has global warming made it harder for environmentalists to care about conservation?

Jonathan Franzen New Yorker Mar 2015 30min Permalink

Science

Slip Sliding Away

Locals on the Outer Banks are arguing about whether climate change is real. Meanwhile, their islands are disappearing.

Mac McClelland Audubon Mar 2015 10min Permalink

Science

Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?

Trying to make sense our current age of disbelief.

Joel Achenbach National Geographic Feb 2015 15min Permalink

Science

A Strange New Gene Pool of Animals Is Brewing in the Arctic

Climate change is giving rise to intermating between previously distinct species. Welcome to a world with “grolar bears.”

Tim McDonnell Nautilus Dec 2014 10min Permalink

Science

Climate Change Takes a Village

Citizens of Shishmaref, Alaska are watching their beaches disappear and their homes fall into the sea. Is it too late to relocate?

Kate Sheppard The Huffington Post Dec 2014 20min Permalink

Science

Cold Comfort

The president of Kiribati goes to Norway to bear witness to climate change.

John van Tiggelen The Monthly Dec 2014 20min Permalink

Science World

China, the Climate and the Fate of the Planet

On the world’s biggest polluter.

Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Sep 2014 30min Permalink

Science

Brain Games

The world’s leading scientists try to solve climate change.

David Kushner Weather.com Jul 2014 Permalink

Big Water

The California Dream is made possible by old water and big water. Unfortunately, the former doesn’t care about us, and the latter’s running dry.

Nathan Hegedus The Morning News May 2014 15min Permalink

Science

Two Degrees

How the world failed on climate change.

Brad Plumer Vox Apr 2014 15min Permalink

Science

A Star in a Bottle

An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Mar 2014 1h Permalink

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