David Hastings: We Have Entered the Era of ‘Global Boiling’ —Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, and Economies Are Being Devastated
Marine heat waves are causing record-breaking ocean temperatures that kill animals and impact ocean-based industries.
Noelle Canin: War Watching
I know what blood looks like, she said.
I know what a home looks like
after a bomb.
Video: The Growing Megafire Crisis — And How to Contain It
George T. Whitesides presents three solutions to this blazing dilemma, calling for us to redefine our relationship with fire in order to build a more resilient and sustainable future.
Lorine Niedecker: When Ecstasy is Inconvenient
Know amazedly how
often one takes his madness
into his own hands
and keeps it.
Gerry LaFemina: Last Report Card before High School
Do I have to say I never kissed her?
Sure, I could solve for X but still nothing
seemed to add up. That was the sum of my knowledge.
My whole life then was about what I wasn’t doing.
Video: One for All
Tony Drees actually considers himself to have “good fortune,” despite being born into an abusive household, surviving the deadliest bombing in the Gulf War, beating cancer, and having his leg amputated up to his hip.
Therese L. Broderick: Beautiful Uses | The Compassion of James Crews
This book’s enduring beauty and daily usefulness can cradle and help to heal our broken hearts.
Alice Rothchild: Zionist Fragility
The time is long overdue for liberal Zionists to find the courage to take a long hard look at their uncritical support for the actions of the Israeli state as it becomes increasingly indefensible.
Sara Hegy: Even the Longest Winters End
Winter in a Refugee Camp, Gaza
Paul Christensen: A Diary of Winter
The cold came in silent as an owl. The fences stared out at the clenched landscape with gaping eyes, unlocked gates, a path already flattened out in anticipation of the coming snow.
Video: Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area
In response to rising costs of living the citizens of Toronto begin renouncing their personhood en masse to legally become animals, forming a society of “Wildmen” in the city’s vast ravine network.
Lisa Zimmerman: Thinking About Dean Young and the Anthropocene & Another Country
I’m doing my best, balancing hope on the head of a pin,
following those other steadfast travelers exiting the shop, holding
their buzzing phones, their many cups of Joe.
James Crews: After the Blizzard & Sunflower
…awe will follow you from now on
wherever you go, like the snow-light
that fills these rooms
Ashley Berke, et al: How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
Nearly half the world’s children “live in countries where risks to their health and safety due to the effects of climate change are extremely high,” according to UNICEF.
