The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim.

The physical and sociological effects of climate change in Thailand.

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

Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.

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

Going on a fishing trip with the secretary of the interior.

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

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

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

Few Americans are as affected by climate change as Alaska’s Inupiat, or as dependent on the fossil-fuel economy.

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

What to do about climate change.

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

A narrator's strange daily life is fused with strange appearances from the natural world.

"Freezing, I sprang from bed and assembled, in darkness relieved only by a bluish gleam cast by the iceberg, sweaters, flannel pajama bottoms, my heaviest wool socks, and a down-filled coat suitable for an assault on Everest. For the iceberg that crowded my bedroom was no symbol of the world’s entropy or of a man’s estrangement from his kind, nor was it any longer a figment of the dreaming mind. (We don’t suffer cold in dreams, nor do we sneeze as I did twice while fumbling at my clothes.) Dressed, I drew aside the rime-stiffened curtain and gazed out on a flotilla of icebergs gliding solemnly down the flooded street. (To acknowledge, as you no doubt have, that I spawned one berg, a pack of them is easily granted.)"

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.

On geoengineering, a high risk/high reward fix for global warming.

How an increase in the earth’s temperature could wipe out a continent.

What overcrowded and swelling Bangladesh can tell us about how the planet’s population, more than 1/3 of which live within 62 miles of a shoreline, will react to rising sea levels.

Energy problems are long problems that often receive short solutions. In 2000, when Mother Jones ran this history about what happened to the energy research boom of the late 70s and early 80s, I was buying $0.99 a gallon gas for my Escort. I chose this story because I think longform journalism can keep people interested in these issues that require decadal attention but are subject to year-to-year fluctuations in public interest. And it’s a great story.

-A. Madrigal

America, China, and the case for coal as a vital weapon in the war against climate change.