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

How the Pentagon makes “Koch Industries look like an organic farm” when it comes to toxic water contamination.

How greed is sucking Texas dry.

How the world failed on climate change.

“Too much is being asked of the Delta.”

How warming and acidifying oceans endanger the entire marine food chain.

“If we do nothing, we’re dead! We’re toast!”

After Berkeley biologist Tyrone Hayes said that a widely used herbicide was harmful, its maker launched an attack on him.

Orlando’s suburbs become an accidental testing ground.

How the ski town of the super-rich is responding to global warming.

It comes from the soil of the desert Southwest. Inhaled, it can cause incurable, even fatal illness. And, thanks to global warming, valley fever is spreading fast.

Investigating the murder of a Costa Rican conservationist.

A former teacher on what students lose when elementary schools skimp on science.

Due to global warming, this island nation may cease to exist in 20 years.

An unlikely environmentalist exposes the natural gas industry’s leaky infrastructure.

The economics of climate change and the end of humanity.

The Arctic, sailors and scurvy.

How the Keystone XL became the defining environmental test of Obama’s presidency.

The fight to save a “delicious gold mine.”

The weird history and uncertain future of New York City’s shoreline.

How the city will drown.

Their religion prohibits lawsuits. The energy companies know it.

How humanitarian disasters are good for nature.

A fishery, an economy, and a way of life hang in the balance.

The discombobulated existence of polar bears and the people trying to save them.

An excerpt from Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.