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Eating Squirrels, Fearing Tigers, and Avoiding the Wrath of Spirits

Eating Squirrels, Fearing Tigers, and Avoiding the Wrath of Spirits

Lisa Lee Herrick Traces Her Ancestry, the Hmong People, from Laos to America

By Lisa Lee Herrick | December 20, 2019

On the Dumping Grounds of Fuerteventura, the Real Isle of Dogs

On the Dumping Grounds of Fuerteventura, the Real Isle of Dogs

Wild Dogs, Old Gods, and the History of a Place

By Matthew Gavin Frank | December 17, 2019

When a Cinematic Dystopia Becomes a Daily Reality

When a Cinematic Dystopia Becomes a Daily Reality

On Larry Fessenden’s The Last Winter

By David Roth | December 16, 2019

Imagining the Anthropocene on Other Planets

Imagining the Anthropocene on Other Planets

Christopher Schaberg on Searching for Ourselves Beyond Earth

By Christopher Schaberg | December 13, 2019

How to Write with Optimism About Nature<br> (in a Time of Disaster)

How to Write with Optimism About Nature
(in a Time of Disaster)

Tobias Carroll on Books by Isabella Tree, Marc Hamer,
and Tim Robinson

By Tobias Carroll | December 11, 2019

The Car Culture That's Helping Destroy the Planet Was By No Means Inevitable

The Car Culture That's Helping Destroy the Planet Was By No Means Inevitable

On the Relentless Campaign to Force Americans to Accept the Automobile

By Jeff Sparrow | November 27, 2019

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Two Graphic Novels Ask:
Why Have Children in an Uncertain World?

By Michelle Delgado | November 25, 2019

The Endless Memories Preserved in Siberia's Ice

By Heather Altfeld | November 22, 2019

Hopepunk and Solarpunk: On Climate Narratives That Go Beyond the Apocalypse

By Alyssa Hull | November 22, 2019

Oxford's Word of the Year 2019 is...

Oxford's Word of the Year 2019 is...

By Dan Sheehan | November 20, 2019

Small Wonder: The Challenge of Parenting Through Climate Collapse

Small Wonder: The Challenge of Parenting Through Climate Collapse

Eiren Caffall on Rereading Rachel Carson and Exploring the Tidepools of Maine

By Eiren Caffall | November 18, 2019

Terry Tempest Williams on William Merwin and Becoming an Environmental Activist

Terry Tempest Williams on William Merwin and Becoming an Environmental Activist

In Conversation with Will Schwalbe on But That's Another Story

By But That's Another Story | November 18, 2019

Greta Thunberg: “This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.”

Greta Thunberg: “This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.”

Read the 16-year-old Climate Activist's Urgent
Speech to United States Congress

By Greta Thunberg | November 12, 2019

How Do We Bring More Urgency to the Climate Crisis? Emma Sloley and Emily Raboteau in Conversation

How Do We Bring More Urgency to the Climate Crisis? Emma Sloley and Emily Raboteau in Conversation

Rethinking Ways of Describing Climate Change As It Is Lived

By Literary Hub | November 7, 2019

Did This Iconic 1962 Short Film Show Us Our Dark Future?

Did This Iconic 1962 Short Film Show Us Our Dark Future?

David Ulin Reflects on Death, Science Fi and Scenes From La Jetée

By David L. Ulin | November 7, 2019

Teaching Climate Change With <em>The Lorax</em> and <em>The Jungle</em>

Teaching Climate Change With The Lorax and The Jungle

Mark Gozonsky on Getting High-School Kids to Read and Care About the Climate in Unconventional Ways

By Mark Gozonsky | October 21, 2019

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