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![Illustration is a backdrop of palm trees and lightning with driving rain. An inset box shows a family sitting together by candlelight. An older woman rests her head on the shoulder of a man. A woman reads to a young girl. In the foreground, a young woman looks out of frame.]()
![Illustration is a backdrop of palm trees and lightning with driving rain. An inset box shows a family sitting together by candlelight. An older woman rests her head on the shoulder of a man. A woman reads to a young girl. In the foreground, a young woman looks out of frame.]()
The Isle of Beautiful Waters
Storytelling traditions connect a Caribbean family as they prepare to shelter from an oncoming storm.
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![Illustration shows an Asian woman and a Latino man wearing dirt-covered work clothes, looking into each other's eyes. They are standing in a shed filled with round trays of green leaves and white worms, and white moths fly around their heads.]()
![Illustration shows an Asian woman and a Latino man wearing dirt-covered work clothes, looking into each other's eyes. They are standing in a shed filled with round trays of green leaves and white worms, and white moths fly around their heads.]()
The Ones Left Behind
In the backroom of a Sichuan restaurant, Grace tends to the family’s legacy and discovers a new beginning.
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![Illustration shows a young woman and an older man sitting near each other, surrounded by vegetation and insects. Their expressions and pose suggest worry or tension.]()
![Illustration shows a young woman and an older man sitting near each other, surrounded by vegetation and insects. Their expressions and pose suggest worry or tension.]()
This View From Here
As a young woman prepares to leave her small town, a fight with her father sheds light on their fears for the future.
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![Illustration shows a Black woman with green jewelry looking into a cracked mirror]()
To Rescue a Self
At the Green Nigeria Youths Fellowship, Eketi tries to find her voice.
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![Illustration shows two people looking out over a rundown city street with neon Korean signs and a deep ravine running through the center]()
![Illustration shows two people looking out over a rundown city street with neon Korean signs and a deep ravine running through the center]()
We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now
Deep in the fissures that plague Koreatown, Christina’s search for her sister reveals something new.
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The future needs cultures
Imagine 2200’s creative director reflects on the importance of depicting culturally-rich futures and engaging writers around the world in creating climate fiction.
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![Exxon Mobil sign in foreground with smokestacks of a petrochemical factory in background]()
![Exxon Mobil sign in foreground with smokestacks of a petrochemical factory in background]()
California and environmental groups sued Exxon over plastics. Now Exxon is striking back.
In a retaliatory lawsuit, Exxon says claims against it are motivated by “sordid for-profit incentives and outright greed.”
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Will the world fall in love with nuclear power once more?
Grist sat down with environmental journalist Marco Visscher to talk about his new book on the rise, fall, and return of nuclear.
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![A diver is shown alongside a coral reef many times taller and wider than he is.]()
![A diver is shown alongside a coral reef many times taller and wider than he is.]()
The business case for saving coral reefs
A growing body of research shows the nation’s coral reefs protect $1.8 billion in economic assets each year and should be protected for our sake and their own.
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![A bearded man in a white tee shirt and white baseball cap sits in a boat on a river]()
![A bearded man in a white tee shirt and white baseball cap sits in a boat on a river]()
Developers eye Louisiana, Texas coasts for offshore carbon storage
Is the Gulf of Mexico the ‘single best opportunity’ to store climate-warming gas — or would that pose an existential threat to wildlife and people?
