The Radical Power of Your Sourdough Starter
For fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz, making sourdough, kimchi, and kombucha is about more than eating well at home. It’s a metaphor for creative systemic change, bubbling away from the ground up.
Analysis | Can We Undo Trump’s Environmental Damage?
American climate policy can be salvaged, but environmentalists say action has to be swift and sweeping.
A Reset for Unprecedented Times
Buen Vivir is both a philosophy and a lived practice that puts Earth at the center of “the Good Life.”
Opinion | Vanessa Nakate: America Needs to Lead on Climate Change
The 23-year-old Ugandan climate activist explains what the U.S. election will mean for the future of the planet.
Excerpt | Paying Attention to Nature—Urgently
There’s the octopus in the parking garage, and 26,500 other signs that climate change is here.
How We Can Build a Hardier World After the Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed one particularly shocking thing about our societies and economies: they have been operating on a very thin margin.
2018 was the fourth hottest year on record
NASA and NOAA data show that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record, while the hottest is 2016. Global surface temperature records go back nearly 140 years. During that time, nine of the 10 hottest years occurred between 2005 and 2018.
The Dire Warnings of the United Nations’ Latest Climate-Change Report
Carolyn Kormann on a new report from the I.P.C.C., which states that global climate change will have catastrophic consequences once the planet surpasses 1.5 degrees of warming, which could happen in just a few years.
Greenland’s Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Expected.
When NASA scientists realized that Greenland’s glaciers had begun melting much faster than expected, they were puzzled — and alarmed.
