Robert Cording: Dome Houses
When erected, the domes must have looked
like something built to colonize Mars.
Roberta Hatcher: Two Poems
In February that year a man entered the wilderness,
drifted down a river forty days and forty nights.
He emerged to a world utterly transformed.
Lauren Magliozzi: Urban wildfires disrupt streams and their tiny inhabitants − losing these insects is a warning of bigger water problems
When you think of urban wildfires, you might picture charred trees and houses. But beneath the surface of nearby streams, fires can also cause a silent upheaval.
Stan Cox: As Climate Chaos Accelerates, Governments Avert Their Eyes
The Earth’s not just steadily warming; it’s heating up at an ever-faster pace.
Stan Cox: A Future Generation Shows Up Ahead of Schedule
The decision in favor of Montana’s youth is inspiring more lawsuits across the country.
Julia Conley: ‘Climate Breakdown Has Begun.’ Summer 2023 Hottest on Record
Climate scientists across the world have been alarmed over the past three months by fast-spreading wildfires, prolonged and deadly heatwaves, and numerous shattered heat records across the northern hemisphere.
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.
Video: Fire Season
As wildfires ravage California, bystanders record nature’s wrath.
George Monbiot: Level Down
The living world is being hit by everything at once: the only way to stop our full-spectrum assault on Earth systems is to reduce our economic activity.
David Orr: Letting the World Burn | The Question of Governance
The primary cause of the worsening situation is not the combustion of fossil fuels, but the massive political dereliction that has allowed the bonfire to go on after we knew that it posed a potentially lethal threat to humankind.
Julia Conley: Environmental Threats Rapidly Becoming ‘Single Greatest Challenge to Human Rights’ according to UN
“Governments’ failure to act on climate change in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence may well be the biggest intergenerational human rights violation in history.” —Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International
Ramzy Baroud: Why the World Is Burning
Global warming is, in large part, the outcome of a destructive pattern instigated and sustained by capitalism. The latter can only survive through unhindered consumption, inequality, greed and, when necessary, war.
Tom Engelhardt: Our Not-So-Slow-Motion Apocalypse
A heating planet is a danger, not in some distant time, but right now — yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Luke Montrose: There may be dangerous components in wildfire smoke
As dozens of large fires burn, a lot of people are wondering what’s in the air they’re breathing.
