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Climate Change

Changing Views on Climate Change

Fairweather friends of the planet: climate journalism’s abrupt swing from apocalypse to dreamland

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“The Fire Is for the Greedy”

Heat and historical memory in Nawabshah, Pakistan

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Bright Power, Dark Peace

The poetry of Robinson Jeffers finds new relevance in the age of climate catastrophe

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The End of Eden

Climate change comes to the cradle of civilization

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As the World Burns

If it seems as though the world’s on fire, that’s because it is. Wildfires are starting earlier in the dry season and burning for longer. As of October 2017, European…

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Living in the Vanguard of Climate Change

How mega-fires—and the blinkered perspectives demanding flawed management of them—are raising the stakes for everyone

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Reasons to be Cheerful

Man’s inhumanity to man getting you down? Don’t be afraid to check the clock

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Inside the July Issue

Tom Bissell on touring Israel with Christian Zionists, Joy Gordon on the Cuban embargo, Lawrence Jackson on Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising, a story by Paul Yoon, and more

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