Tag: climate change

Scientists knew how serious climate change is. Politicians knew. Energy companies knew. The U.S. was ready to act, and then we… didn’t.

United in a common struggle, the drought has leveled the racially divided city’s physical and social barriers in profound ways.

In her new book, Elizabeth Rush gives voice to poor communities and communities of color who are the first victims of the rising sea.

Even if rising sea levels flood many coastal cities, California farmers plan to grow food for a living. So what will the future California grow?

At first glance, there’s a pretty stark divide in this month’s books newsletter.

Renowned for the size of his books as the magnitude of his subjects, the author is ready to take on waste and climate change.

William Vollman enters the radioactive red zone to visit the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Here are the voices of the Alaskans threatened by climate change.

How do we deal emotionally with the many deaths of climate change?

An amateur geographer travels to an undocumented island off the coast of Haiti after stumbling upon it on Google Earth.

Inside the booming business of survival food.

Massive volcanic events are the cause of most global mass extinctions. When will the next one destroy life on earth?

But we’re not. Instead, the effects on cities tend to be edited out or statistically minimized.

The before, during, and after of how Hurricane Harvey battered Texas for five days.

The troubled world of flood insurance: what happens to coastal communities as climate change leads to more and more catastrophic flooding?

On Game of Thrones and climate change: “Every city in the world is built on wildfire.”

A climate change feature at New York Magazine leads a scientist to take on its extraordinary claims.

Shishmaref, an island village north of Nome, Alaska, is the front line for global warming’s effects on rising sea levels.

On Earth Day, thousands marched in support of science and the environment. But as these stories show, the fight has just begun.

These conservatives are hoping to rally Republican voters around global warming in a way that gets the GOP to finally listen.

All climate change deniers needed was one article to cast doubt on the science of global warming.

The sci-fi writer explains how his city-dwellers learn to survive and thrive after a climate-change catastrophe.

Scientists closely monitor the last member of a species. Is there space in a creature’s DNA to consider the prospect of no tomorrow?

Ross Andersen’s captivating profile of Nikita Zimov and his quest to re-create a Pleistocene ecosystem is worth reading, not least for a fascinating explanation of how grasses went from being slimy ocean plants to covering huge swaths of the planet.

Writing in The Baffler, Laurie Penny explores what it will mean for the civilization to collapse slowly, because of climate change, rather than in a single nuclear bang.

Billy Barr moved into a remote part of the Rocky Mountains in search of solitude over 40 years ago. To avoid boredom, he documented snow levels, animal sightings, and the date flowers first bloomed. “…collectively his work has become some of the most significant indication that climate change is rearranging mountain ecosystems more dramatically and quickly than anyone imagined.”

The Economist goes into the frigid north to examine how climate change and economics have endangered the centuries-old relationship between Finn and reindeer.

On a cruise through Antarctica’s stunning (and endangered) landscapes, Julia Whitty observes the spectre of climate change from up close.

[Dr. Stephen] Gliessman argues that these resilient coffee forests will be able to survive climate change. “It is the low elevation robusta variety of coffee and the coffee that is grown in large monoculture, full sun plantations (the bulk of the coffee traded on the open commodity market) that will not be resilient.” Single species […]

It’s not clear what the Audubon Society did to piss off Jonathan Franzen. But the Audubon that emerges from Franzen’s essay is a band of once-scrappy conservationists who have grown content to peddle squeaky plush toys and holiday cards; we’ve seized on climate change, apparently, in a last grab at relevance. In order to gin up […]