Mark O’Connell Uncanny Planet A new collection of essays by Nathaniel Rich argues that there is no going back to whatever might be meant by “nature.” July 22, 2021 issue
Sophie Pinkham Blood on the Ice Bathsheba Demuth’s ‘Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait’ November 7, 2019 issue
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
Bill McKibben 130 Degrees This is going to be a century of crises, many of them more dangerous than what we’re living through now. August 20, 2020 issue
Jonathan Mingle A World Without Ice The project before us is paradoxical: thinking on long time scales while acting with furious urgency. May 14, 2020 issue
Willa Glickman New York's Rising Tides Hurricane Sandy revealed just how poorly suited our system is to absorb the shock of climate change and particularly sea-level rise—and how unequally the effects are felt. June 13, 2020
Alan Weisman Burning Down the House By exhuming hundreds of millions of years’ worth of buried organic matter and burning it, we built our dazzling modern civilization, not noticing that its wastes were amassing overhead. August 15, 2019 issue
William Finnegan California Burning Fires are bigger, hotter, faster, more expensive and difficult to fight, and more destructive than ever before. We have entered the era of the megafire. August 16, 2018 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
Anastasia Edel The Big Smoke It is hard not to think of California’s wildfire plight as a metaphor for America’s decline, though hopelessness is not the Californian way. September 17, 2020
Monica Uszerowicz Picturing Climate Crisis in Miami FloodZone lays Miami’s underlying fractures bare: street-level billboard renderings of new apartments are fenced off by rain-weathered chain-link and sidewalks fractured by flooding. May 23, 2020
Bill McKibben Big Oil Runs Out of Gas People used to worry that the fossil-fuel industry would hit “peak oil” and we’d run out of crude. It now seems far more likely that it’s going to run out of money instead. May 12, 2020
E. Tammy Kim Moms 4 Housing & the Right to a Home In Oakland, a coordinated, grassroots response to the housing emergency is revealing new potential for inspiring change. March 9, 2020
Christopher Benfey The Year of the Amazon? If Jeff Bezos named his firm after the Amazon River, how did the river itself come to be called the Amazon? Was the rainforest once inhabited by golden-crowned women warriors mounted on fleet-footed steeds? January 22, 2020
