“As the climate changes, genetic engineering will be essential for growing food. But is it creating a race of superweeds?”
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Daylighting a Brook in the Bronx
“An ode to an underground waterway and the restorative effort to unbury it.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Elizabeth Kolbert, Joshua Hammer, Tan Tuck Ming, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian.
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When the Arctic Melts
“What the fate of Greenland means for the rest of the Earth.”
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Extreme Heat Takes a Toll on Animals and Plants. What Their Keepers Do to Protect Them
“How zookeepers and botanists keep animals and plants cool in extreme weather.”
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It’s Oil That Makes LA Boil
“I never knew I lived in an oil town until I went looking for the concealed infrastructure of fossil fuel production.”
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Four Lost Pregnancies. Five Weeks of IVF Injections. One Storm.
“A couple spent years and tens of thousands of dollars trying to have a baby. Then Hurricane Ian hit.”
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One Man’s Quest to Transform the West Texas Desert
“An urban dweller ventures to far West Texas with a dream to transform a barren desert into a lush forest.”