What is clear is that the technique is unproven, and by conditionally approving industry plans that include it, Alberta officials are signaling they still have no idea how they’re going to clean up the waste of the oilpatch. By Emma McIntosh, David Bruser.

These recent rains are attributed to changing climate over the Pacific Ocean.

Insurance companies offer exclusive firefighting services for high-paying clients that can help them mitigate the worst consequences of wildfire disasters. Most other people aren’t so lucky. By Caroline Haskins.

Hurricane Michael tore directly into the base, and some of the Air Force’s most advanced — and most expensive — stealth fighter jets may have been left at the base.

The weekend before the fires I attended a grief workshop sponsored by the climate change group. They told us grief processed on one’s own turns to despair, but grief processed communally becomes medicine. Now that we knew the reality of climate change, we would grieve the Earth. That way grief wouldn’t hold us back when it was time to mobilize. To prepare us, they drew two circles on the board. Your Comfort Zone was written inside one circle. In the second circle, some distance from the first, they wrote, Where the Magic Happens. By Christina Nichol.

"Anything that can leave has, and anything that couldn't leave has died." By Maya Wei-Haas, photographs by Ben Depp.

"Do the same math as we did above with the floodplains, in precisely the same way, and we see a 37% chance that any American of average life expectancy will experience at least one nationwide violent revolution." By BJ Campbell.

When a general worried about Lee's next move, Grant tersely replied, "I am heartily tired of hearing what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land on our rear and on both our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do." By Gregory A. Mertz.

A recording salvaged from three miles deep tells the story of the doomed “El Faro,” a cargo ship engulfed by a hurricane. By William Langewiesche.

Trump’s staff purge is the start of a dark and dangerous new phase in which no constraints on his whims will be tolerated. By Andrew Sullivan.

Six months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are designing a recovery that defends their island. Politicians and bitcoin billionaires have other ideas. By Naomi Klein.

The 10th-century Eldgjá eruption looked a lot like the end of the world. By Sarah Laskow.

Humanity’s food security is at far more risk than you realize. By Jonas O Bergman. (Mar. 8, 2018)

Jeff Goodell reports: Extreme weather due to climate change displaced more than a million people from their homes last year and could reshape nation.

There’s new evidence that an unprecedented transformation is underway at the North Pole. By Eric Holthaus.

The Skirball fire, which destroyed homes and forced the evacuation of a large chunk of Bel-Air, has put the homeless issue at the forefront of community debate. By Makeda Easter and Gale Holland.

New research reveals scary projections for rapid sea-level rise. By Eric Holthaus.

The pilgrims stole from graves, the Wampanoag were devastated by disease, and the peace between them was political. By Becky Little.

It depends on what counts as a mass shooting — and the typical definition leaves out some pretty bad attacks. By German Lopez.

If the world manages to keep warming by the century’s end below 1.5º C – an extremely ambitious target – over a third of the ice volume in Asia’s high mountains will still be lost. By T.V. Padma.