Climate Culture
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As climate risks mount, the insurance safety net is collapsing
Natural disasters now cost the U.S. insurance industry $100 billion a year. What happens when no one wants to pick up the tab?
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Pope Francis calls for rapid decarbonization, ‘abandonment of fossil fuels’
The pontiff's latest decree urges Western countries to do more to avert climate disaster.
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Across the Midwest, communities grapple with the idea of a future without coal
The fossil fuel defined economies and local traditions. What happens when it goes away?
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In photos: This small Midwestern town still crowns its Coal Queen
Coal was everything for Marissa, Illinois. What happens when a community is centered on a fossil fuel?
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From Jane to the Octonauts, children’s TV is taking on the climate crisis
Experts say these shows can help parents talk about a thorny subject — and inspire hope.
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The summer that reality caught up to climate fiction
"My novel is going to be coming true for the rest of my life."
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Will sweat help us survive climate change?
It's gross. It's sticky. And it's already saved your life.
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Burning Man’s climate reckoning has begun
Protesters highlighted the festival’s carbon footprint, but the biggest issue may be Burning Man’s opposition to renewable energy in its own backyard.
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Forget eco-activists: This climate novel stars an oil industry shill
Lydia Kiesling’s ‘Mobility’ follows Bunny Glenn, a millennial who ends up on the dark side.
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Hip hop has been a climate voice for 50 years. Why haven’t more people noticed?
“People have spent time bobbing their heads to our stories of this despair and not seeing it as a call to action.”
