Elizabeth Kolbert

The Waste Land

Two crucial and interconnected resources—human feces and arable soil—face crises of mismanagement.

The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health

by Lina Zeldovich

A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet

by Jo Handelsman

February 24, 2022 issue

Chemical Warfare’s Home Front

Since World War I we’ve been solving problems with dangerous chemicals that introduce new problems.

The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth

by Frank A. von Hippel

The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age

by François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux, translated from the French by Janice Egan and Michael Egan

February 11, 2021 issue

He Tried to Be a Badger

The more that’s learned about cognition in other species, the tougher it is to make the case that our intelligence is anything special.

Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide

by Charles Foster

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

by Frans de Waal

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

by Jonathan Balcombe

June 23, 2016 issue

A house swept into a lake by the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy, Mantoloking, New Jersey, October 2012; photograph by Andrew Quilty from the collection #Sandy: Seen Through the iPhones of Acclaimed Photographers

‘Can Climate Change Cure Capitalism?’: An Exchange

On ‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate’

January 8, 2015 issue

Can Climate Change Cure Capitalism?

Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

by Naomi Klein

December 4, 2014 issue

Exchange

Naomi Klein

‘Can Climate Change Cure Capitalism?’: An Exchange

On ‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate’

January 8, 2015 issue

When Did the Great Flocks Arrive?

February 20, 2014 issue

Letter

Robert Dankoff

Columbus & the Pigeons

March 20, 2014 issue

Lewis Cross: Passenger Pigeons in Flight, painted in 1937

They Covered the Sky, and Then…

A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction

by Joel Greenberg

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record

by Errol Fuller

January 9, 2014 issue

Letter

Jane D. Saxton

When Did the Great Flocks Arrive?

February 20, 2014 issue