Climate Culture
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![Open dictionary with blank silhouettes of leaf and flower]()
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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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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.
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![digital collage of Billie Eilish, Bonnie Raitt, Dave Matthews, and Chris Martin, with a tree, music notes, and a nalgene water bottle]()
![digital collage of Billie Eilish, Bonnie Raitt, Dave Matthews, and Chris Martin, with a tree, music notes, and a nalgene water bottle]()
How musicians and concert venues are upping the tempo on climate action
As sustainability initiatives in other industries stall out, big acts like Coldplay, Dave Matthews, and Billie Eilish are pushing live music to go green.
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![Photo of Joseph Lee beside book cover for Nothing More of This Land]()
![Photo of Joseph Lee beside book cover for Nothing More of This Land]()
Rising seas, vanishing voices: An Indigenous story from Martha’s Vineyard
In "Nothing More of This Land," writer Joseph Lee reflects on being Wampanoag in a place shaped by colonization.
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![A female river guide leads two groups of rafts down a river]()
![A female river guide leads two groups of rafts down a river]()
A year after Helene, river guides in Appalachia are navigating a new world
The first tourist season since the storm reveals how much the river and livelihoods have changed.
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![several pieces of lab-grown salmon plated on a large white plate]()
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Want to try lab-grown salmon? The US just approved it.
Despite a growing number of state bans, advocates of cultivated seafood say it can protect waterways from overfishing.
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![collage of the book Sea of Grass with headshots of the authors on either side]()
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How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored
A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.
