Germany’s Black Forest faces a future of transformation. So do the people who have lived there for centuries.
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By All Measures
Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?
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Lessons for the End of the World
“On Octavia Butler, the L.A. fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.”
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The Hot New Luxury Good for the Rich: Air
“The wealthy have different houses, different cars, different lifestyles from the rest of us. These days, they also want to breathe different air.”
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The Women at the Cutting Edge of Butchery
Butcher shops have been struggling to survive. But now women are picking up the knife.Â
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The Unending Quest To Build A Better Chicken
“Maybe what we need is not just a new form of poultry farming but a complete revolution in how we relate to meat.”
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Can Anyone Fix California?
“Climate. Housing. Crime. Depending on who you ask, the Golden State is a bellwether for progress, or a liberal hellscape. A journey through a land in crisis.”
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The Elusive Future of San Francisco’s Fog
“Off the California seaboard, ocean and sky create a phenomenon that has long defined life along the coast.”
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False Passives
As she travels north through Ethiopia, Anna Badkhen speaks with people who are looking for a way to escape — to cross the Gulf of Aden toward Yemen — and ruminates on the plight of refugees and vulnerable populations around the world. When does a journey begin? When droughts parch the land, or mudslides take entire farms […]
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This Isn’t the California I Married
“The honeymoon’s over for its residents now that wildfires are almost constant. Has living in this natural wonderland lost its magic?”