Tag: climate change

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 […]

Could garden cities help fix these problems? Advocates think so. They argue that garden cities can deliver the humane, sustainable, equitable communities that people want and the planet needs, by slashing emissions, preserving green space, and encouraging neighborly interaction. Today, garden-city projects are popping up from England to India to Cambodia. In particular, China, where […]

There is the scientific and ideological language for what is happening to the weather, but there are hardly any intimate words. Is that surprising? People in mourning tend to use euphemism; likewise the guilty and ashamed. The most melancholy of all the euphemisms: “The new normal.” “It’s the new normal,” I think, as a beloved […]

Meet the researchers who are developing new methods for countering global warming using geoengineering. Some solutions come with great risks: While such tactics could clearly fail, perhaps the greater concern is what might happen if they succeeded in ways nobody had envisioned. Injecting sulfur dioxide, or particles that perform a similar function, would rapidly lower […]