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Lannister’s Greatest Battle Yet

In a post-Thrones world, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has become a climate warrior

Birds Are Losing the Climate Fight

Global warming causes some species to become smaller

Saving Whales Is More Important than Planting Trees

Restoring them to their pre-hunting numbers could capture 1.7 billion tons of CO2 annually

Our Own Titanic Moment

To visualize the stakes of the climate emergency, think about the fabled ship: dangerously little time remains to correct course

Troubled Waters

The world’s oceans now have more plastic than fish

How to Kill a Predator

Backed by big-bucks conservatives, and with deep ties in D.C., the Pacific Legal Foundation is systematically destroying U.S. wildlife protections

The Aquifer

A short play about climate change

Fighting a Burning Injustice

Threatened with death, this professor battles giant corporations setting fire to rare wilderness areas

Flood Zone

Venice, its masterpieces, and its gondolas are underwater and floundering

The Most Important Man on Earth

David Attenborough is beloved in Britain, and, at 93, a global star. Now he’s sounding alarms about the planet. Is he too late?

Private Jets Feel the Greta Effect

Climate collapse? Who cares! Bill Gates, Oprah, and the rich Chinese fly high. Swedes are getting grounded

Bronze Age. Iron Age.
Now, the Plastic Age

Congratulations: your garbage has entered Earth’s fossil record

Protest or Die?

Extinction Rebellion argues that radical, mass nonviolent civil disobedience is the only way to change current climate policies. On October 7, they’re going global

Very High and Drying

The little-known “third pole,” in Asia’s high peaks, is one of the most ecologically diverse places on Earth

Paradise in Flames

An epic journey by river and road reveals the horrible price of the Amazon inferno

Whale Slaughter Resumes

Japan

Orcapella

Scientists record whale songs from the South Pacific

Green New Girls

Meet the stylish socialites who are making environmentalism chic

How Green Is Your Valley?

Tatiana Schlossberg measures the carbon footprint of everyday life

Gentleman Trawler

Pierre Casiraghi squires teenage eco-warrior Greta Thunberg to New York on his zero-emission boat

Silicon Island

The Google elite jet-ski their way to saving the Earth

As the World Melts …

Grim Reaping

Forest twice the size of Wyoming destroyed to grow food