“Professor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet—and as a call to protect its future.”
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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 Year of Silt
“Twelve months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, many people are still fighting to return home.”
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Climate Change Is Keeping Therapists Up at Night
“How anxiety about the planet’s future is transforming the practice of psychotherapy.”
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In Harm’s Way
“How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk.”
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Earth Day Reads: A Longreads Collection on the Environment, Climate Change & Conservation
This April 22, dive into these thoughtful essays, reading lists, and recommended reads on the climate crisis, wildfires, and water management.
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The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World
“As climate change threatens to upend the icy kingdom, we’re writing ghost stories in real time.”
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To Live in the Ending
“I am not sure I know how to unbraid the language of the apocalypse from all this and still have a voice left to speak to you.”