The ‘Green Energy’ That Might Be Ruining the Planet
The biomass industry is warming up the South’s economy, but many experts worry it’s doing the same to the climate. Will the Biden Administration embrace it, or cut it loose?
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The biomass industry is warming up the South’s economy, but many experts worry it’s doing the same to the climate. Will the Biden Administration embrace it, or cut it loose?
Michael Grunwald Politico Mar 2021 30min Permalink
Evidence of the failure to love is everywhere around us. To contemplate what it is to love today brings us up against reefs of darkness and walls of despair.
Barry Lopez Orion Aug 2020 15min Permalink
Gearing up for the fight against a new climate enemy.
Jessica Kutz High Country News Sep 2020 20min Permalink
Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.
Paige St. John, Anna M. Phillips, Joseph Serna, Sonali Kohli, Laura Newberry Los Angeles Times Nov 2018 15min Permalink
A profile of climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Mar 2020 15min Permalink
Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction.
Lauren Groff Harper's Feb 2020 25min Permalink
The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim.
Rosanna Xia Los Angeles Times Jul 2019 30min Permalink
The physical and sociological effects of climate change in Thailand.
Pitchaya Sudbanthad Guernica Mar 2019 15min Permalink
With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable.
Bill McKibben New Yorker Nov 2018 30min Permalink
A report from Antartica, where the ecosystem is changing so fast scientists have no idea what will come next.
Craig Welch National Geographic Oct 2018 20min Permalink
Going on a fishing trip with the secretary of the interior.
Elliott D. Woods Outside Dec 2017 30min Permalink
CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.
Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Nov 2017 25min Permalink
The activist who turned off the Keystone pipeline last fall is facing years in prison - and not backing down.
Kathryn Robinson Seattle Met Jun 2017 25min Permalink
”In West Antarctica, scientists have discovered the engine of catastrophe.”
Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone May 2017 20min Permalink
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
An oral history of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
What to do about climate change.
Rebecca Solnit TomDispatch Sep 2014 15min Permalink
How the ski town of the super-rich is responding to global warming.
Nathaniel Rich Men's Journal Jan 2014 30min Permalink
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.)"
Norman Lock Guernica Dec 2013 10min Permalink
Due to global warming, this island nation may cease to exist in 20 years.
Jeffrey Goldberg Businessweek Nov 2013 30min Permalink
An unlikely environmentalist exposes the natural gas industry’s leaky infrastructure.
Phil McKenna Matter Nov 2013 25min Permalink
On geoengineering, a high risk/high reward fix for global warming.
Michael Specter New Yorker May 2012 25min Permalink
How an increase in the earth’s temperature could wipe out a continent.
Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Oct 2011 30min Permalink
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.
Don Belt National Geographic May 2011 15min Permalink
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.
Arthur Allen Mother Jones Mar 2003 15min Permalink