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Losing Paradise
“As rising seas swallow Louisiana’s marshes, oil companies are pretending nothing has changed — and that now floatable, fishable waters remain their private property.”
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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
“I remain hopeful partly as defiance.”
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Phantom Pains
“These losses—my limb, my students’ hopes, Thoreau’s mammals, the wings falling from our skies—they are not all that distinct from one another. They can’t be, because all of us, all of the material world, we are one and the same thing.”
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Rockhopper Penguins’ Athleticism Makes Them the Daredevils of the Animal World. Will a Warming Climate Slow Them Down?
“A visit to the Falkland Islands, where the fearless seabirds navigate the rugged topography with tenacious spunk, shows the new challenges they face.”
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How Pronghorns Outran the Ice Age
“Can they outrun an uncertain climate future?”
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By All Measures
Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?
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Winter Finally Comes for Gothic’s Billy Barr
“Billy Barr has braved the fourth season deep in the Rocky Mountains for more than 50 years, amassing an unrivaled record of climate data.”
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The Grab List: How Museums Decide What to Save in a Disaster
“Billions of dollars’ worth of art is imperilled by climate change. Curators will have to make sacrifices.”
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Investigating a Treetop Baby Boom
“Why a sudden spike in pregnancies in one Madagascan lemur population might actually be a bad sign for the species.”