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Elizabeth Weil

Science World

The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try.

A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.

Elizabeth Weil ProPublica Jan 2021 15min Permalink

Best Article Arts Crime

In the Ashes of Ghost Ship

He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.

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Max Harris was acquitted this week of charges of involuntary manslaughter.

Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Dec 2018 45min Permalink

Sports

Did Venus Williams Ever Get Her Due?

How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis.

Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 30min Permalink

‘‘You Got Your High School Diploma?’’

What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?

Elizabeth Weil California Sunday Mar 2019 25min Permalink

Best Article Sports Travel

Why Would Anyone Kayak Across an Ocean — at 70?

Aleksander Doba has spent a great deal of time alone, naked and blistered, aboard a very small boat in the middle of the ocean. It is his favorite thing to do.

Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Mar 2018 25min Permalink

Sports

Mikaela Shiffrin Does Not Have Time for a Beer

What it takes to be the best alpine skier in the world.

Elizabeth Weil Outside Nov 2017 15min Permalink

Business Crime

The Curse of the Bahia Emerald

Meet the giant green rock that seduces and destroys.

Elizabeth Weil Wired Mar 2017 25min Permalink

Crime

Shrimp Boy’s Day in Court

What happened when one of San Francisco’s most notorious underworld bosses tried to go clean.

Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Oct 2015 20min Permalink

World

Everything Is Yours, Everything Is Not Yours

A Rwandan refugee grows up in America.

Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil Matter Jun 2015 30min Permalink

Reversal of Fortune

A BASE jumper emerges from a coma after a bad fall and sets about rebuilding his body and his life.

Elizabeth Weil Outside Jul 2012 15min Permalink

Sports

Mary Cain Is Growing Up Fast

A profile of a promising young runner.

Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Mar 2015 15min Permalink

What Really Happened to Baby Johan?

A baby dies after hitting his head when his father drops him, and the investigation that ensues can’t offer any easy answers.

Elizabeth Weil Matter Feb 2015 30min Permalink

World

The Woman Who Walked 10,000 Miles (No Exaggeration) in Three Years

Sarah Marquis’s very long hike.

Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Sep 2014 10min Permalink

Sports

The Flying Tomato Would Rather You Not Call Him That Anymore

A profile of Shaun White.

Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Jan 2014 25min Permalink