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How to Mourn a Glacier
Along the western edge of Iceland’s central-highland plateau, in the far east of the Borgarfjörður district, the Kaldidalur, or “cold…
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The Literal Gaslighting That Helps America Avoid Acting on the Climate Crisis
We’re clearly in a climate moment: it’s possible that more marchers have walked more miles in the past month than…
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At the U.N., Jair Bolsonaro Presents a Surreal Defense of His Amazon Policies
By tradition, the Brazilian President is the first leader to speak at the General Debate at the United Nations General…
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Trump’s War on California and the Climate
If Donald Trump had come to California earlier this week, and found smog conditions similar to those that prevailed here…
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New York’s Original Teen-Age Climate Striker Welcomes a Global Movement
On Friday morning, Alexandria Villaseñor, who, at fourteen years old, is one of the youngest organizers of the global climate…
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The Trump Administration Finds a New Target: Endangered Species
The whooping crane (Grus americana) is the tallest bird in North America, standing nearly five feet, with snow-white plumage, black…
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Don’t Burn Trees to Fight Climate Change—Let Them Grow
Of all the solutions to climate change, ones that involve trees make people the happiest. Earlier this year, when a…
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A Louisiana Republican Reckons with Climate Change
Garret Graves is a forty-seven-year-old Republican congressman from Louisiana who, earlier this year, bet his considerable political future on the…
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The Right to a Stable Climate Is the Constitutional Question of the Twenty-first Century
On June 4th, in a packed courtroom in Portland, Oregon, Judge Andrew Hurwitz, of the United States Court of Appeals…
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The U.N. Report on Extinction vs. Mike Pompeo at the Arctic Council
It’s rare that you get to see, in sharp focus, opposite world views fighting for the planet’s future at the…
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