Confronted with her parents' dementia and teenagers' climate anxiety, one woman considers how our baselines shift in the face of personal — and global — loss. By Heidi Lasher

"Anyone who denies that we are in a human-induced extinction crisis is either lying or not paying attention." By Jon Queally.

Focusing on breath and gratitude, Dahr Jamail’s latest book, “The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption,” stitches together personal introspection and gut-wrenching interviews with leading climate experts. By Elise Swain.

Father John Misty

A new movement is demanding solutions. They may just be in time to save the planet. By David Graeber.

When tropical forests become firestorms and the Sahara turns green. By David Wallace-Wells.

To vanquish a vampire, one generally employs a stake, a cross, a string of garlic, or a combination of all three. But there’s one highly effective anti-vampire weapon that few think to use: math. By Ella Morton. (Oct. 27, 2015)

The question is no longer whether or not we are going to fail, but how are we going to comport ourselves in the era of failure? By Dahr Jamail.

He started a bad fight over an unpopular wall and can't admit he's wrong. By Harry Cheadle.

Hone these talents and you just might live. By Lindsay N. Smith.

An MIT model predicted when and how human civilization would end. Hint: it's soon. By Paul Ratner.

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

Researchers warn that even limited climate warming could trigger conditions not seen in a million years. By Matt McGrath.

Some would say the mistake was having our daughter in the first place. By Roy Scranton.

Halestorm

David Buckel’s memory is dangerous to environmental organizations’ more moderate calls for legislative gradualism and personal lifestyle change. By Jack Downey.

Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are driving us over the edge. By Damian Carrington.

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

How every little thing affects every other thing… By Rob Larson.

Climate change and disease evolution have been the wild cards of human history. By Kyle Harper.