Could tinkering with photosynthesis prevent a global food crisis?

Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden.

We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.

The psychology behind our limitations of reason.

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

It’s a made-up label.

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

The shrinking of the country’s ice sheet is triggering feedback loops that accelerate the global crisis.

South Florida and the danger of the rising sea.

The science of sleeplessness.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, profiled.

With the exception of the imperial offspring of the Ming dynasty and the dauphins of pre-Revolutionary France, contemporary American kids may represent the most indulged young people in the history of the world.

A profile of environmental activist Van Jones.

On the morality of procreation and the origins of birth control.

Buckminster Fuller reconsidered.