• Climate Change

    Climate Change

    What Would Happen If All the Ice on Earth Suddenly Melted?

    Peter Brannen on the Melting of Snowball Earth

     
    By Peter Brannen  August 28, 2025
    Disasters

    Reading the River: How to Measure the Frequency of Flooding

    By Ellen Wohl  August 20, 2025
    Climate Change

    Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

    By Sam Bloch  August 8, 2025
    Sociology

    After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

    By Dean Spears and Michael Geruso  August 8, 2025
    The Hub

    Apparently, comparing someone’s writing to AI is now a “classist slur;” and other news.

    By James Folta  July 22, 2025
    Agriculture

    How Big Agriculture Mislead the Public About the Benefits of Biofuels

    By Michael Grunwald  July 21, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Climate Change

    A Planet’s Pain: On Healing Climate Grief Through Ritual and Reverence

    By Dheepa R. Maturi  July 21, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

    By Emily Buchanan  July 18, 2025
    Beyond the Page

    Margaret Atwood and Ayad Akhtar on This Wonderful, Terrible World

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  July 10, 2025
    Climate Catastrophe

    Embracing Ethical Pessimism in the Face of Near-Certain Climate Doom

    Roy Scranton on How Transcendental Style in Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Helps Imagine an Unimaginable Future

    By Roy Scranton  August 20, 2025
    Beyond the Page

    Niall Ferguson and Evan Osnos on Henry Kissinger

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  June 18, 2025
    Nature Writing

    The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

    By Daegan Miller  June 5, 2025
    Climate Crisis

    What Does a Million Years Mean to You? Five Books That Explore Deep Time

    By Tim Weed  June 4, 2025
    Wildfires

    When the Sequoias Burn: Inside the Making of a California Megafire

    Jordan Thomas on the New Challenges Firefighters Face in an Era of Climate Change

    By Jordan Thomas  May 28, 2025
    Storms

    Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life’s Many Storms

    By Catherine Bush  May 28, 2025
    Anniversaries

    20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 27, 2025
    Apocalypses

    Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

    By Martha Park  May 23, 2025
    The Natural World

    What I Learned at My First Tree-Climbing Workshop

    Marguerite Holloway on Why We Should All Be Paying More Attention to Trees

    By Marguerite Holloway  May 13, 2025
    Technology

    From MLMs to Nuclear War:
    10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2025
    Beyond the Page

    Judy Blume on Radical Honesty

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  April 11, 2025
    Pollution

    Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

    By Ariel Courage  April 10, 2025
    New in Nonfiction

    From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

    Featuring Work by Faiz Siddiqui, Heather Christle, Ada Limón, and More

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    Earthquake Anxiety:
    Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One

    By Emma Pattee  March 27, 2025
    The Hub

    The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its first shortlist.

    By Brittany Allen  March 19, 2025
    Wildfires

    Summers on the Forest: What It’s Like Training to Fight Wildfires

    By Kelly Ramsey  June 18, 2025
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