The Sound of Skeptics

Jeremy Hoffman is a paleoclimate scientist who studies ocean sediment. In other words, he’s reconstructing climate records from the Earth’s past. And he’s tired of the climate skeptics, so he wrote a...
We can’t make it stop

We can’t make it stop

What I Learned on a Luxury Cruise Through the Global-Warming Apocalypse is a thought-provoking essay about climate change by Roy Scranton, published October 21 in The Nation. In it he describes a 17-day trip he took to the Arctic to witness the melting at the top of...

Unchopping a tree

This beautiful and sad video shows how fast the parks we love—Central park, Hyde park, Champs de Mars park—would be gone if they were logged at the same rate as the rainforests around world. The video is part of a multimedia science-based collection of...
You and Me in the Aftermath

You and Me in the Aftermath

Seattle’s G. Gibson Gallery is currently showing the work of Seattle artist Mary Iverson in a show titled You and Me in the Aftermath. Her artist’s statement reads: “After the cataclysm that most of us feel is coming due to climate change, there will be a...