The West Has Never Felt So Small
With fires raging up and down the West Coast, and the pandemic restricting travel, the instinct to bolt has nowhere to go.
Planet
Your guide to life on a warming planet
All That Performative Environmentalism Adds Up
Don’t depersonalize climate change.
A Mental-Health Crisis Is Burning Across the American West
Each fire season can compound the trauma of the one before it.
‘We Knew They Had Cooked the Books’
The Trump administration’s attempt to kill one of America’s strongest climate policies has been a complete debacle.
The Concession to Climate Change I Will Not Make
I’ve never thought we should stop having children. But I will have to teach our son to wonder at the world before he learns to fear for it.
A Major but Little-Known Supporter of Climate Denial: Freight Railroads
For nearly 30 years, America’s four biggest rail companies—which move the majority of the country’s coal—have spent millions to deny climate science and block climate policy.
My Boyhood
“The natural inherited wildness in our blood ran true on its glorious course, as invincible and unstoppable as the stars.”
The Yellowstone National Park
“It is a hard place to leave.”