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Video: What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?

With settlements on every continent, humans can be found in the most isolated corners of Earth’s jungles, oceans and tundras. Our impact is so profound, most scientists believe humanity has left a permanent mark on Earth’s geological record.

April 1, 2023 · 2 Comments

Julia Conley: Rapidly Melting Glaciers Threaten Collapse of Crucial Ocean Circulation Systems: Study

“It’s way faster than we thought these circulations could slow down,” said one researcher. “We are talking about the possible long-term extinction of an iconic water mass.”

March 31, 2023 · 2 Comments

Declan McCabe: The Science Behind Streams and Rivers

65% of the river water discharging to our oceans is associated with threatened habitats.

March 27, 2023 · 3 Comments

Liza Katz Duncan: Bayshore Elegy

You’d have to be crazy to call home
a strip of sand that will be underwater
in fifty years and oh,
my God, what does that make me?

March 22, 2023 · 6 Comments

Matthew J. Parker: Educating Girls | An Earth-Saving Enterprise

Educating girls is a critical means of heading off climate change.

March 22, 2023 · 6 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: Rain and Heat, Fire and Snow

Life in a Destabilized California

February 9, 2023 · 1 Comment

Rebecca Gordon: American Exceptionalism on Full Display

Why This Country Might Want to Lower Its Expectations

January 10, 2023 · 4 Comments

Aric Sleeper: ‘Public Trust’—A Key Legal Tool to Preserve Our Natural Resources

There are underutilized legal weapons already on the books that can help fight big corporations and preserve the planet’s natural resources, such as watersheds and large forests… That legal weapon, a component of property law, is a concept known as the ‘public trust.’

January 6, 2023 · Leave a comment

Jade Prévost-Manuel: Could Breadfruit Help Trinidad and Tobago Brace for Climate Change?

Despite its colonial origins, breadfruit is now the subject of international research to evaluate its potential as a staple crop in a warming world.

January 3, 2023 · 3 Comments

Jane Braxton Little: Inferno

Climate Disaster Is Turning the Planet into a Tinderbox.

December 15, 2022 · Leave a comment

Veronica Frans, Jianguo Liu: Protecting 30% of Earth’s surface for nature 

A biodiversity crisis is reducing the variety of life on Earth. Under pressure from land and water pollution, development, overhunting, poaching, climate change and species invasions, approximately 1 million plant and animal species are at risk of extinction.

December 9, 2022 · Leave a comment

Hanganh Vo: COP27 | Progress or Performance?

COP27 was sponsored by Coca-Cola, the world’s leading polluter of plastics. Unilever, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Endesa, and a host of coal companies are past sponsors.

November 29, 2022 · Leave a comment

Tom Engelhardt: When Will Climate Change Become the Crucial Issue in American Elections?

We’re now on a tipping-point planet.

November 28, 2022 · 1 Comment

Neil Shepard: Local Freeze

Flat lines of black clouds 
rolled over the Everglades, pelting the land with cold rain, 
then, briefly, almost impossibly, hail, over the wetlands and dredged 
fields, reminding us how fragile the grapefruits and oranges.

November 15, 2022 · 5 Comments

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