Aaron Matz Flaubert’s Planet Do novelists, and their readers, bear some responsibility for the climate crisis? July 21, 2022 issue
Sophie Pinkham A Hotter Russia The cliché, avidly promoted by Moscow, is that Russia will be a relative winner in climate change, but a new book argues that the country will find itself in trouble. June 23, 2022 issue
Michelle Nijhuis Must We Grow? New books argue that life in a slower economy isn’t necessarily painful, and is likely to be healthier and more secure in many ways. June 9, 2022 issue
Bill Spindle On the Grid in Leisang With every village in India electrified, the country’s challenge will be to meet growing energy demand with renewable sources. But can it afford to give up fossil fuels? June 22, 2022
Jonathan Mingle 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
Tim Flannery In Hot Water “The decline of coral reefs is accelerating so quickly that we may live to see the end of them.” March 24, 2022 issue
Anna Louie Sussman Conceiving the Future The argument that reducing human populations will help curb climate change has obvious appeal, but it overlooks several inconvenient facts. September 23, 2021 issue
Bill McKibben It’s Not Science Fiction In Kim Stanley Robinson’s anti-dystopian novel, climate change is the crisis that finally forces mankind to deal with global inequality. December 17, 2020 issue
Omar G. Encarnación The Revolt of Empty Spain A nonpartisan movement to bring attention to the depopulation of Spain’s countryside has begun to shape national politics. August 17, 2022
Lola Seaton ‘Hope You’re Staying Cool’ The July heatwave that brought chaos to London has changed the way Brits see the sun. July 31, 2022
Verlyn Klinkenborg The Forest’s-Eye View Two new books investigate the ways in which deforestation affects climate change, and climate change affects forests. July 21, 2022 issue
Leah Aronowsky The Limits of Climate Change Litigation For two decades, climate scientists have been developing tools to pin the blame for hurricanes, floods, and heatwaves on fossil fuel companies. But judges say climate change is too big for court. November 3, 2021
Bill McKibben The Future Is Electric Because electricity is so much more efficient than combustion, totally electrifying our country would cut primary energy use about in half. November 4, 2021 issue
Willa Glickman The Future of Fracking New technology has allowed access to more oil and gas in the US than ever expected. Will we be able to turn away from this dangerous windfall before it’s too late? May 5, 2021
Regina Marler The Emergency Everywhere In Madeleine Watts’s The Inland Sea and Maxim Loskutoff’s Ruthie Fear, young women navigate danger from men and from themselves, against a backdrop of relentless climate catastrophe. March 25, 2021 issue
Frederic Wehrey The Lost Rivers of Owens Valley Water—who owns it, who uses it—has shaped this landscape from the Paiutes’ irrigation canals to the Los Angeles aqueduct. And it is a history in which my own family played a part. February 16, 2021
Jim Shultz The Renewable Energy Rebels In rural New York State, big wind and solar energy projects are running into determined local opposition. What is to be done? December 3, 2020
