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![Dune protagonists look out over the desert.]()
![Dune protagonists look out over the desert.]()
Are we still ‘Dune’ this?
In Denis Villeneuve's latest film, the year is 10191 and we can't get enough of extractive colonialism.
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![Julius Caesar statue in apocalyptic Las Vegas with tumbleweeds]()
![Julius Caesar statue in apocalyptic Las Vegas with tumbleweeds]()
Las Vegas just hosted a climate denier conference and it makes perfect sense
The selection of Caesars Palace as the venue may have been a matter of price or convenience, but it’s hard not to read into the poetry of it.
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![Ruins of a city covered by rising waters]()
![Ruins of a city covered by rising waters]()
Ancient cultures faced rising seas and lived to tell the tale
There’s some truth behind age-old flood myths (even Noah’s Ark and Atlantis).
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![Wedding cake with a groom topper and a tree wearing a bridal veil]()
![Wedding cake with a groom topper and a tree wearing a bridal veil]()
It might be time to rethink our relationship with ‘Mother Earth’
The ecosexual movement argues that we could stand to be a lot less platonic with the planet.
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![Collage: an open book with blue cloudy sky on top of it]()
![Collage: an open book with blue cloudy sky on top of it]()
‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ and the world we cannot escape
There is something both very old and refreshingly new about Anthony Doerr’s epic tale of the climate crisis.
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![Anxious woman with browser windows showing climate disasters]()
It’s not just you: Everyone is Googling ‘climate anxiety’
Searches for the phrase have soared 565 percent over the past year.
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![A TV with Earth on it, Jimmy Fallon, Trevor Noah, and Jimmy Kimmel in foreground]()
![A TV with Earth on it, Jimmy Fallon, Trevor Noah, and Jimmy Kimmel in foreground]()
Late-night shows took on the climate crisis. We ranked them from best to worst.
The “late” of late-night TV would seem to extend beyond its broadcast time to the timeliness of its subject matter.
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![Collage: Earth on top of a superhero cape]()
![Collage: Earth on top of a superhero cape]()
Don’t expect heroes (or evil villains) in this history of the climate crisis
Who's responsible for this mess? A new book says it's complicated.
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![Indigenous leaders and their water-protector allies protest Enbridge Line 3 in St. Paul, Minnesota]()
![Indigenous leaders and their water-protector allies protest Enbridge Line 3 in St. Paul, Minnesota]()
To solve the climate crisis, we must first repair our relationships
Environmental justice scholar Kyle Whyte on reframing the climate conversation through the lens of "kinship time."
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Glaciers are more than ‘frozen, sterile wastelands’
Frozen beans, polar bear run-ins: A new book tells the truth about life as a glaciologist.
