Voices from the Storm
An oral history of Hurricane Harvey.
Environment
Disaster Aversion
The quest to control hurricanes.
Patagonia's Big Business of #Resist
Taking a stand for public land turns out to be very good for sales.
Bombs in Our Backyard
An investigation into how the American military disposes of its waste.
Holy Water
The author on her reverence for water.
The Future of Coal Country
A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.
Jungle Law
It’s the biggest environmental lawsuit in history. The people of Lago Agrio, an oil-rich area in the Ecuadorean Amazon, are suing Chevron for $6 billion after decades of spills. The case has been underway since 1993.
Where Oil Rigs Go to Die
The life cycle of a drilling platform.
Letter from a Drowned Canyon
On water in the West, climate change, and how the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell.
Inside the Final Days of the Standing Rock Protest
A eulogy for a movement.
The Longform Guide to Snow
A collection of picks on Montreal's plow racket, what it’s like to freeze to death, the wilds of eastern Siberia and more.
Bounty Hunters
A war on wolves in Utah.
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.
Patagonia's Philosopher-King
How Yvon Chouinard turned his eco-conscious, anti-corporate ideals into the credo of a successful clothing company.
Where the Ghost Bird Sings by the Poison Springs
The author investigates the massive wildlife die-off in the Salton Sea by rafting from its tributaries in Mexico.
The Slideshow That Saved the World
An oral history of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
Best Article Crime History Science
Inhaling the Spore
A trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.
The Incredible Rise and Final Hours of Fracking King Aubrey McClendon
He made billions. He lost billions. He was fired as CEO of the company he created. And on March 2, just hours after he was accused of rigging oil deals, he died in a one-car crash.
Killing Libby
The EPA called it the most severe exposure to a hazardous material in American history. The only people in Libby, Montana, who didn’t see it coming were the victims.
Liquid Assets
The hedge fund manager making a bet that Wall Street can solve the water crisis in the West.
How the Gold King Mine Spill Threatens the Navajo Nation
Last August, contaminated water escaped from an abandoned mine in Colorado and traveled down the Animas River to Shiprock, the second-largest city in the Navajo Nation. Two weeks later, the EPA declared the sludge-filled river safe.
Who Poisoned Flint, Michigan?
A writer returns home to find a toxic disaster, giant government failure, and countless children exposed to lead.
The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare
Rob Billot spent eight years defending corporate clients in environmental cases. Then Wilbur Tennant called.
Can Wolves Bring Back Wilderness?
The history of canis lupus in America, up to the present day.
