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Climatic changes

Power in Paris

Can the earth be saved by bureaucrats in long meetings, reciting jargon and acronyms while surrounded by leaning towers of documents? That is what’s supposed to happen in France this…

Rotten Ice

by Gretel Ehrlich,

Traveling by dogsled in the melting Arctic

The War of the World

by Rebecca Solnit,

On a single day in July of 1943, more than 500 Allied planes bombed Rome, killing 1,500 people. The city got off lightly compared with Naples, which was attacked 200…

Promises, Promises

by Mark Hertsgaard,

Can Obama redeem his environmental failures?

The Quinoa Quarrel

by Lisa M. Hamilton,

Who owns the world’s greatest superfood?

Razing Arizona

by Christopher Ketcham,

Will drought destroy the Southwest?

Little Green Men

by S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache,

From “Human Engineering and Climate Change,” by S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache, published last year in Ethics, Policy & Environment. A widely cited report by the United Nations…

Glaciers for Sale

by McKenzie Funk,

A global-warming get-rich-quick scheme

Empire Falls

From Responding to Climate Change in New York State, a November 2011 report prepared for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Rising sea levels and extreme weather…

Baked Alaska

From interviews with Yup’ik hunters and elders in the Alaskan villages of St. Mary’s and Pitka’s Point by researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, conducted as part of a study…

A Rising Tide

by Andrew Marantz,

Planning the future of a sinking island