Tag: global warming

Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Are they ready for the next big disaster?

Knowing what we now know about global warming, is procreation irresponsible?

Iceland holds a funeral for Okjökull, once a glacier, now “dead ice.”

We can all remember a time when the wind touched us when we needed touching, pushed us along when we were unsure.

If there’s no earth, there’s no art. How do you engage in cultural criticism at the end of the world?

Climate change and the border wall are more connected than you might think.

Her planet/self-help guide for activists, “Emergent Strategy,” is going mainstream — maybe even in time to save the world.

These conservatives are hoping to rally Republican voters around global warming in a way that gets the GOP to finally listen.

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.

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 […]