Climate of Doubt
The art and science (or lack thereof) of water dowsing.
Environment
Killing the Colorado
An investigation into why the West is running out of water.
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Holy Crop
The labyrinth of policies that reward Arizona farmers for growing cotton, which uses six times as much water as lettuce and 60 percent more than wheat.
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The ‘Water Witch’
The woman who found the water to keep Las Vegas growing, for better or worse.
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Use It or Lose It
How a century-old water deal is encouraging waste and worsening the drought.
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End of the Miracle Machines
How the achievement of moving water comes at an enormous cost to the environment.
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Less Than Zero
Ground water and surface water stores are interconnected. But we count them twice.
What's Killing the Babies of Vernal, Utah?
A midwife, a rash of stillbirths and miscarriages, and a town whose economy depends on fracking.
The Other Side of Climate Change
Has global warming made it harder for environmentalists to care about conservation?
Jane Goodall Is Still Wild At Heart
She’s 80 now, working 13 hour days, and still won’t take so much as a reporter’s hand to cross the stream.
A Liar Standing Next to a Hole in the Ground
Prospecting for gold is still a live trade in America, if you’re willing to walk deep into the desert with a hand-drawn map.
Send in the Weathermen
Inside the world of special operations weather technicians, “the Department of Defense’s only commando forecasters.”
Bees, Inc.
Save the honeybee, sterilize the earth.
Voices from Chernobyl
“'You have to understand: This is not your husband anymore, not a beloved person, but a radioactive object with a strong density of poisoning. You’re not suicidal. Get a hold of yourself.' And I was like someone who’d lost her mind: 'But I love him! I love him!' He’s sleeping, and I’m whispering: 'I love you!' Walking in the hospital courtyard, 'I love you.' Carrying his sanitary tray, 'I love you.'”
Dry
The water’s nearly gone in the San Joaquin Valley, and an old farmer sees the writing on the wall.
The Wreck of the Kulluk
Three years ago, Shell spent millions to send a colossal oil rig to drill in the remote seas of the Arctic. But the Arctic had other plans.
The Top-Secret Food That Will Change the Way You Eat
The scientists at Beyond Meat have concocted a plant-protein-based performance burger that delivers the juicy flavor and texture of beef with none of the dietary and environmental downsides.
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.”
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?
Cold Comfort
The president of Kiribati goes to Norway to bear witness to climate change.
Money ≠ Happiness. QED.
The old axiom that more is better is no longer true.
Warehouse Empire
The political maneuvering behind the growth of massive consumer goods warehouses and the health hazards that often follow.
Louisiana Is Disappearing Into the Sea
“Since 1932, the Gulf of Mexico has swallowed 2,300 square miles of the state’s wetlands, an area larger than Delaware. If no action is taken, the missing Delaware will become a missing Connecticut, and then a missing Vermont.”
Disappearing Darkness
On America’s vanishing night sky and life in perpetual light.
The Wheel Turns, the Boat Rocks, the Sea Rises
What to do about climate change.
China, the Climate and the Fate of the Planet
On the world’s biggest polluter.
The Story That Tore Through the Trees
On Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire and its lingering effects on our collective imagination and environment.
Power Steer
Raising a cow on an industrial feedlot.
The Aftershocks
How seven Italian scientists came to be convicted of manslaughter following a catastrophic quake.
The Price of Cold
On frozen dumplings, industrial freezers, and what the future could hold after China’s burgeoning refrigeration boom.
