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![Illustration of a couple hugging amidst wind and rain]()
![Illustration of a couple hugging amidst wind and rain]()
How disasters change our love lives — for better and for worse
Some couples broke under the pressure of Hurricane Helene. Others found something solid and surprising in each other.
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![Urban planner and public artist Sabina Sethi Unni stars as an humanized flood sensor – a tool that detects high water levels and delivers that data to a publicly-accessible map - in her community play Flood Sensor Aunty.]()
![Urban planner and public artist Sabina Sethi Unni stars as an humanized flood sensor – a tool that detects high water levels and delivers that data to a publicly-accessible map - in her community play Flood Sensor Aunty.]()
An absurdist theater artist prepares New Yorkers for climate disasters
"Sometimes a one-page pamphlet translated into two languages isn’t the best way for people to receive information, but a song about go-bags played on the synth is."
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![Headshots of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton beside the book cover for The Long Heat]()
![Headshots of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton beside the book cover for The Long Heat]()
So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why.
In "The Long Heat," Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.
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Where the Appalachian brook trout vanish, something human goes missing, too
As climate change reshapes the Blue Ridge, Appalachia’s native trout are losing ground — but dedicated anglers and scientists are racing to save them.
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![Collage of worker carrying solar panel, archival material from Sun Day 1978, and view of Capitol building]()
![Collage of worker carrying solar panel, archival material from Sun Day 1978, and view of Capitol building]()
The politics of renewables are getting stranger. ‘Sun Day’ celebrates them anyway.
The national day of action arrives at a time when clean energy is becoming more polarized.
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![Open dictionary with blank silhouettes of leaf and flower]()
![Open dictionary with blank silhouettes of leaf and flower]()
The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.
We’ll need to do more than "touch grass" to revive them.
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![Texas flag flying beneath legislative building]()
After the Texas floods, when is the right time to ask what went wrong?
The rare window to ask tough questions opens after a disaster. Too often, it closes before accurate answers can emerge.
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![Sculpture of replica of Rodin's The Thinker sitting on a mossy Mother Earth, with plastic pollution at its base. A yellow and gray sign reads]()
![Sculpture of replica of Rodin's The Thinker sitting on a mossy Mother Earth, with plastic pollution at its base. A yellow and gray sign reads]()
The art of a plastics treaty: How sculptures, collages, and poetry have influenced global talks
As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the conversation toward health harms, fossil fuels, and false solutions.
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Data centers, drought, and dispossession: The real nightmares in Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
In the new horror-tinged Western, a fictional Pueblo tribe and a fractured town reveal how pandemic politics and AI infrastructure deepen old patterns of violence.
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This Indian rapper is spitting bars about climate justice, caste, and Indigenous rights
In her latest single, Mahi G spotlights the outdoor workers vulnerable to extreme heat.
