How A Nonagenarian Insists We Can Avoid The Age of Loneliness By Krista Stevens Highlight “He frames what we don’t know about our planet and what lives on it as a thrilling mystery, an opportunity to learn rather than a problem too daunting or, worse, too late to confront.”
Greta Thunberg: “We Just Have to Care About Each Other More” By Krista Stevens Highlight “It has become a disconcerting pattern for Thunberg appearances: Greta tells the adults they are fools and their plans are lame and shortsighted. They still give her a standing ovation.”
What Do We Do With Feelings Now That They Don’t Matter Anymore? By Sarah Miller Feature Sarah Miller thinks about climate change and other current horrors, and what it’s like just being sad forever.
Apocalypse Now? Now? How About Now? By Krista Stevens Highlight “And yet I am also, in the darkest corners of my heart, a doomsday prepper myself.”
Still Waters By Soraya Roberts Feature The muted response to Todd Haynes’s “Dark Waters” is depressingly similar to our culture’s muted response to climate change
Naming the Psychological Effects of Climate Change: Solastalgia By Krista Stevens Highlight “The word he came up with was solastalgia, a portmanteau word of the Latin solus, which means ‘abandonment and loneliness,’ and nostalgia.”
Burning Out By Sarah Trent Feature Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Are they ready for the next big disaster?
When It Comes to the Climate Crisis, Don’t Forget the Power of the States By Livia Gershon Feature Even with the federal government in chaos, there’s still plenty of opportunity to solve a global problem.
Should We Create New Life As Our Planet Struggles to Support Life In General? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Knowing what we now know about global warming, is procreation irresponsible?
A View of the Bay By Aimée Lutkin Feature A family’s losses after Hurricane Sandy didn’t come in the usual order or with the usual speed.
The Link Between Hurricane Katrina, Emmett Till, Racism, and Climate Change By Krista Stevens Commentary “I wondered if Katrina was really a 14-year old boy named Emmett.”
A Green New Jail By Will Meyer Feature What does environmental justice look like in a landscape overrun by prisons? Where the incarcerated suffer from unusually polluted surroundings, and prisons are a toxin in their own right?
Memorializing a Glacier and Hoping for the Future By Sari Botton Highlight Iceland holds a funeral for Okjökull, once a glacier, now “dead ice.”
This Month In Books: ‘One Degree Is About the Uncanny’ By Dana Snitzky Commentary This month’s books newsletter is suspended in a state of anticipation.
It’s Time To Talk About Solar Geoengineering By Longreads Feature We need to start talking about seemingly drastic approaches to the climate crisis, such as sun-dimming aerosols, right now — or we risk losing democratic control of the process.
Fire Sale: Finance and Fascism in the Amazon Rainforest By Will Meyer Commentary From global capital to YouTube, carbon credits to indigenous land defenders in their own words, Will Meyer has compiled a reading list on who lit the match and how the fire might be stopped.
Grow Up By Soraya Roberts Feature Being an adult at the end of the world means listening to children tell the truths grown-ups refuse to actually hear.
Climate Messaging: A Case for Negativity By Rebecca McCarthy Feature Nell Zink, Joy Williams, and a different kind of climate skepticism.
The Geography of Risk By Longreads Feature Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth, so why do taxpayers have to pay for the hurricane damage to rich coastal communities?
Betting the Farm on the Drought By Longreads Feature Farmers like sixth-generation Illinois farmer Ethan Cox can’t wait for policymakers to protect them from climate change. To survive, they have to adapt their operations now, if they can.
Greenland’s Deepening Ecological Grief By Krista Stevens Highlight “We no longer understand it here. We don’t trust it.”
What Does It Mean To Be Moved? By Jennifer Wilson Feature We can all remember a time when the wind touched us when we needed touching, pushed us along when we were unsure.
The Wind Sometimes Feels in Error By Luke O'Neil Feature Each year the balloon strained and strained against its cords.
A Once and Future Beef By Will Meyer Feature Beef is a major culprit of the climate crisis, but if you want to consider beef’s future, then look to its past. The industry’s tactics have not changed as much as you might think.
Can Coastal California Adapt to Climate Change? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Rising sea levels and aggressive erosion could prove to be the greatest crisis modern Californians will ever face.
‘The Underland Is a Deeply Human Realm’: Getting Down with Robert Macfarlane By Tobias Carroll Feature “I thought the underland would be — of all the landscape forms that have drawn me to explore them — the most uninhabited. This proved wildly incorrect.”
Critics: Endgame By Soraya Roberts Feature If there’s no earth, there’s no art. How do you engage in cultural criticism at the end of the world?
The Age of Forever Crises By Linda Kinstler Feature We need to learn how to talk about our irreversible mistakes. Historian Kate Brown says the first step is to resist the Chernobylization of knowledge.
Did One Young Scientist Discover the Paleontology Pot of Gold? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Answers to some of paleontology’s most frustrating questions might lay in the dirt in North Dakota, but can the scientist who discovered them be believed?
The Difficult Case for Assisted Plant Migration By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight To protect them from climate change, concerned citizens are moving clones of California’s ancient sequoias to Oregon in a process known as assisted migration, but should they?
