Jonathan Mingle | The New York Review of Books

Planet 2025

Donald Trump’s war on what he calls the “deep state” and his broader war on climate science are neatly aligned.

October 30, 2024

The Crash to Come

Insurance companies have responded to climate disasters by raising premiums and dropping customers. Now there’s a new housing bubble waiting to burst.

November 11, 2023

Après-Ski

Climate change is rendering the winter season shorter, warmer, and more erratic. What are we losing beyond the alpine resort?

The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World

by Porter Fox

May 11, 2023 issue

No Smoke, No Fire

Despite the gas lobby’s best efforts, Americans are waking up to the health impacts of gas stoves. There’s no going back.

February 1, 2023

The Groaning Grid

The US can’t reach its net-zero targets unless electrical utilities transition to renewable energy, but the biggest power providers are dragging their feet.

September 30, 2022

Reasons for Concern

The IPCC’s latest report, with warnings for supply chains and food security, may be the most suspense-filled document in human history.

March 9, 2022

The Unimaginable Touch of Time

Searching for meaning in geological rupture

This Is Chance!: The Great Alaska Earthquake, Genie Chance, and the Shattered City She Held Together

by Jon Mooallem

The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time

by Hugh Raffles

February 10, 2022 issue

Pandemic Journal

The latest edition of our brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Coco Fusco in Brooklyn, Lucas Adams in Brooklyn, Sara Nović in Philadelphia, Gavin Francis in Edinburgh, and more.

May 15, 2020

A World Without Ice

The project before us is paradoxical: thinking on long time scales while acting with furious urgency.

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

by Jon Gertner

IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Vanishing Ice: Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas

by Vivien Gornitz

The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability and People

by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

by Dahr Jamail

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May 14, 2020 issue

Our Lethal Air

Air pollution is a global health emergency

The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution—and How We Can Fight Back

by Gary Fuller

Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution

by Beth Gardiner

Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution

by Tim Smedley

Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter (External Review Draft, 2018)

United States Environmental Protection Agency

Letter to EPA Administrator on the EPA’s Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter, April 11, 2019

Review by the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee

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September 26, 2019 issue