Environmental aspects

Dirty South

by Ken Silverstein, Samuel James,

The foul legacy of Louisiana oil

Glaciers for Sale

by McKenzie Funk,

A global-warming get-rich-quick scheme

Bakken Business

by Richard Manning,

The price of North Dakota's fracking boom

From the instruction manual for Catan: Oil Springs, a scenario-expansion kit for the board game The Settlers of Catan. Developed by the Worldwatch Institute and the game’s manufacturers, the scenario…

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…