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Climate Crisis
Blazed Trails For thru-hikers, climate change is posing new, treacherous risks out in the wild. Not that that’s stopping them.
Don’t Let Climate Anxiety Stop You From Having Kids The battle to save the planet shouldn’t be waged over the bodies of women or come at the cost of their personal grief.
By Anya Kamenetz
Having a Kid at the End of the World In the face of bleak climate future, is it okay to want a baby in the present?
By Amil Niazi
odor events
June 12, 2023
Meanwhile, in Texas, Fresh Signs of Impending Apocalypse In our latest environmental plague, tens of thousands of dead fish washed up along the Gulf Coast this weekend.
By Bindu Bansinath
Ariela Barer Is Sure We Can Fix the Climate Crisis The 24-year-old How to Blow Up a Pipeline co-writer and star is taking matters into her own hands.
By Anya Kamenetz
odor events
Mar. 14, 2023
Time to Lie on the Beach and Rot Florida is coming under siege by a massive roving seaweed blob.
By Claire Lampen
golden globes 2023
Jan. 11, 2023
By Alejandra Gularte
year in review
Dec. 30, 2022
The Year the Apocalypse Came to Fashion It’s giving deconstruction, disarray, and decay.
By Laura Pitcher
it’s soup season
Oct. 14, 2022
Why Soup Sunflowers ? Activists threw bisque at a beloved van Gogh painting to make a point about the climate crisis.
By Claire Lampen
climate crisis
Sept. 19, 2022
Staying Sober on a Dying Planet I gave up drinking to give myself a better future. But what if Earth isn’t getting one?
By Ginny Hogan
Surprise: The Celebs Are Using Too Much Water Dwyane Wade and Kim Kardashian are among the Californians who have been reprimanded for their consumption amid a megadrought.
By Danielle Cohen
taylor swift
July 31, 2022
Climate Change (Taylor’s Version) Taylor Swift would like to be excluded from the private jet narrative.
By Bindu Bansinath
making it worse
July 27, 2022
By Bethy Squires
rich people stuff
July 19, 2022
Does Kylie Jenner Think Going to Target Makes Her Relatable? Her reported three-minute private-jet flight says otherwise.
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
climate crisis
Feb. 28, 2022
Each New Climate Report Is Worse Than the Last Think of the latest as the “Your House Is on Fire” report, one scientist suggests.
By Claire Lampen
climate crisis
Nov. 2, 2021
Greta Thunberg Says Change Won’t Come From Politicians at COP26 “No more blah, blah, blah,” she said outside the climate summit.
By Claire Lampen
keeping up with the royals
Oct. 15, 2021
Sorry, Was That a Good Opinion From Prince William? The future king says the money being spent on space tourism would be better spent on curbing the climate crisis, and … correct.
By Claire Lampen
turtle sex
Sept. 23, 2021
By Bethy Squires
last night on late night
Sept. 22, 2021
By Bethy Squires
climate crisis
Sept. 1, 2021
By Bethy Squires
apocalypse now
Aug. 23, 2021
This Weekend’s Weather Was Total Hell Featuring devastating wildfires and deadly flash floods.
By Danielle Cohen
climate crisis
Aug. 11, 2021
Another Reminder That We Are Very Nearly Screwed For the first time ever, smoke from wildfires has drifted all the way to the North Pole.
By Claire Lampen
We’re Almost Out of Time A new report on the climate crisis issues “a code red for humanity.”
By Claire Lampen
climate crisis
July 16, 2021
Thousands of Baby Flamingos Have Died Due to Drought The birds’ deaths in central Turkey are another reminder of how dire the climate crisis is.
By Mia Mercado
how i get it done
June 21, 2021
How This Green New Deal Architect Gets It Done Rhiana Gunn-Wright on choosing to have children during a climate crisis, being a Black Rhodes scholar at Oxford, and more.
By Bridget Read
what to watch
Apr. 30, 2021
A Climate Show That’s Not All Doom and Gloom Introducing All of the Above from Sophia Li and Céline Semaan.
By Emilia Petrarca
‘I Don’t Know How Much More We Can Take’ A Texas domestic-violence shelter was still reeling from the pandemic. Then the winter storm came and their ceilings caved in.
By Bridget Read
climate crisis
Feb. 16, 2021
Yet Another Terrifying, Deadly, Once-in-a-Lifetime Storm Extreme weather in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S. has left at least 20 dead and millions without power. This is our new normal under climate change.
By Bridget Read
climate crisis
Oct. 28, 2020
But Wait, There’s Also Terrible Climate News The warming sea may now be releasing huge deposits of methane — which heats the atmosphere at a rate 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide.
By Bridget Read
California’s Largest-Ever Wildfire Is Now a ‘Gigafire’ The August complex fire has now engulfed over 1 million acres.
By Claire Lampen
first person
Sept. 16, 2020
Rosemary Will Never Smell the Same We wanted to believe that simmering herbs could protect our lungs from the wildfire smoke.
By Meaghan O'Connell
Some Wildfires on the West Coast Are Getting Even Worse The Bobcat Fire in Southern California is now only 3 percent contained.
By Bridget Read
climate crisis
Sept. 10, 2020
This Is What It Looks Like on the West Coast Right Now Photos from the Bay Area show an apocalyptic, sci-fi landscape — except it’s our planet, right now.
By Bridget Read
climate crisis
Sept. 9, 2020
We’re Getting Far Too Used to Living in Hell The dull horror of watch the world burn over social media.
By Bridget Read
Please, Not the Polar Bears Polar bears could go extinct by 2100 due to climate change, a new study warns.
By Claire Lampen
climate crisis
July 6, 2020
The Arctic Is On Fire, and We Should all Be Terrified “We always expected the Arctic to change faster than the rest of the globe. But I don’t think anyone expected the changes to happen this fast.”
By Bridget Read
climate crisis
June 18, 2020
Climate Change Is Making Pregnancy Riskier, Especially for Black Mothers A survey of 32 million births in the U.S. shows that high temperatures and pollution are linked to underweight or premature babies and stillbirths.
By Bridget Read
how i get it done
May 21, 2020
How a ‘Climate Psychologist’ Gets It Done Margaret Klein Salamon has built her career around helping people cope with climate grief and take action.
By Bridget Read
The Women Who Criticized Amazon — and Got Fired Two former employees say the company needs to do more for its warehouse workers, and for the planet.
By Bridget Read
australia fires
Jan. 13, 2020
Australia Now Has ‘Fire Tornadoes’ and ‘Fire Clouds’ The bushfires have grown so intense they’re now making their own terrifying weather.
By Claire Lampen
climate crisis
Jan. 9, 2020
We Should Be More Worried About the Bugs Countless species of insects face extinction in the Australian wildfires — and the repercussions could be devastating.
By Bridget Read
A Year’s Diary of Climate Reckoning Some scientists say the best way to combat climate change is to talk about it. For 2019, my New Year’s resolution was to do just that.
By Emily Raboteau
burning questions
Jan. 6, 2020
Why Is Meat Loaf? The singer has joined the ranks of men with loud, unsolicited opinions about Greta Thunberg’s activism.
By Claire Lampen
climate crisis
Jan. 3, 2020
Yes, It’s Getting Worse Photos from Australia’s fires are a horrifying warning.
By Bridget Read
I Want to Ride on Harry Styles’s Ship of Screams In his new music video for “Adore You,” Harry introduces an innovative new form of transit.
By Claire Lampen
climate change
Nov. 13, 2019
Staggering Photos of the Flooding in Venice The 1,500-year-old city is under water, in what feels like an omen of things to come.
By Bridget Read
Halloween Takes a Terrifying Toll on the Environment A new study finds that one-time use costumes yield thousands of tons of plastic waste every year.
By Claire Lampen
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