The Detective of Northern Oddities
When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska, veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.
When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska, veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.
Christopher Solomon Outside Jan 2017 25min Permalink
A photographer’s quest to document a changing planet from above.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Dec 2016 40min Permalink
The shrinking of the country’s ice sheet is triggering feedback loops that accelerate the global crisis.
Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Oct 2016 35min Permalink
A story from the end of the earth.
Saki Knafo Men's Journal Oct 2016 25min Permalink
Few Americans are as affected by climate change as Alaska’s Inupiat, or as dependent on the fossil-fuel economy.
Tom Kizzia New Yorker Sep 2016 25min Permalink
An oral history of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
Katharine Hayhoe is one of the country’s most influential atmospheric scientists, spreading the word about the effects of climate change. She’s also an evangelical Christian.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Apr 2016 25min Permalink
On the overstated effect of the Santa Ana winds on human behavior and the understated impact of climate change on LA’s seasons.
Adrian Glick Kudler Curbed Apr 2016 10min Permalink
Over four months, a methane well in southern California’s Aliso Canyon leaked Lebanon’s equivalent of yearly emissions into the atmosphere. No one knows what the long-term effects will be.
Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Mar 2016 15min Permalink
South Florida and the danger of the rising sea.
Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Dec 2015 25min Permalink
Traveling by dogsled in the melting Arctic.
Gretel Ehrlich Harper's Apr 2015 10min Permalink
Displaced from the Marshall Islands, residents build a new life in Oklahoma.
Krista Langlois Hakai Magazine Nov 2015 15min Permalink
As the birds decline, one Icelandic island keeps throwing a rowdy, boozy puffin festival.
Brian Kevin Audubon Nov 2015 15min Permalink
The Pope’s vision for addressing climate change.
Bill McKibben New York Review of Books Aug 2015 15min Permalink
Has global warming made it harder for environmentalists to care about conservation?
Jonathan Franzen New Yorker Mar 2015 30min Permalink
Locals on the Outer Banks are arguing about whether climate change is real. Meanwhile, their islands are disappearing.
Mac McClelland Audubon Mar 2015 10min Permalink
Trying to make sense our current age of disbelief.
Joel Achenbach National Geographic Feb 2015 15min Permalink
Climate change is giving rise to intermating between previously distinct species. Welcome to a world with “grolar bears.”
Tim McDonnell Nautilus Dec 2014 10min Permalink
Citizens of Shishmaref, Alaska are watching their beaches disappear and their homes fall into the sea. Is it too late to relocate?
Kate Sheppard The Huffington Post Dec 2014 20min Permalink
The president of Kiribati goes to Norway to bear witness to climate change.
John van Tiggelen The Monthly Dec 2014 20min Permalink
On the world’s biggest polluter.
Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone Sep 2014 30min Permalink
The world’s leading scientists try to solve climate change.
David Kushner Weather.com Jul 2014 Permalink
The California Dream is made possible by old water and big water. Unfortunately, the former doesn’t care about us, and the latter’s running dry.
Nathan Hegedus The Morning News May 2014 15min Permalink
How the world failed on climate change.
Brad Plumer Vox Apr 2014 15min Permalink
An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Mar 2014 1h Permalink